|
ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB PCI-E Preview
Half-Life 2 Episode 1
 Our Half-Life 2 Episode 1 benchmark consists of a timedemo we recorded. In this timedemo Gordon emerges into the streets (which are glowing with HDR) to see a fight between some Combine soldiers and a large ant lion along with some baby ones. Gordon eradicates the enemies with a shotgun and some grenades and then uses the gravity gun to plug up some open ant lion dens. It ends with Gordon entering a small room filled with explosive drums and mines, after exploding said drums and mines with grenades of course. This timedemo not only does a good job of depicting typical gameplay, but it is also the most stressful on the GPU out of several timedemos I recorded. All of the in-game graphical settings were set to high. The "Reflections" drop down menu was set to "Reflect All." The "HDR" drop-down menu was set to "Full." Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering were controlled through a batch file which changes the in-game settings. After the batch has finished running, the average frames per second for each test is output to a file. For each test, the timedemo was run three times and the results were averaged. The game was up-to-date as of 8/20/06.
Half-Life 2 @ 1280 x 1024
(Show All Graphs)
99
96
0
FPS
120
97
83
0
FPS
120
92
73
0
FPS
120
Half-Life 2 @ 1600 x 1200
(Show All Graphs)
92
74
0
FPS
120
81
61
0
FPS
120
71
53
0
FPS
120
Half-Life 2 @ 1920 x 1200
(Show All Graphs)
82
63
0
FPS
120
69
52
0
FPS
120
60
45
0
FPS
120
Page 1: Introduction & The Cards
Page 2: Test Setup Page 3: Benchmarks: Half-Life 2 Episode 1 Page 4: F.E.A.R. Page 5: Need for Speed Most Wanted Page 6: Performance Summary & Closing Thoughts 
Related Reviews Video Cards September 23, 2009
Video Cards June 25, 2009
Video Cards June 8, 2009
Video Cards April 6, 2009
Add Comment
0 User Comments Add Comment To add a comment without being a member, you may omit the password field, but you must enter your name (or nickname) along with your comment. * Denotes required fields. |
Recent Articles Editorials August 27, 2009
Editorials August 18, 2009
Editorials March 3, 2009
Editorials February 12, 2009
Recent News Tom's Hardware Nov. 6, 2009 - 4:45 pm
Boing Boing Nov. 3, 2009 - 8:22 pm
Destructoid Nov. 3, 2009 - 7:14 pm
Fidgit Nov. 3, 2009 - 6:57 pm
Gizmodo Nov. 2, 2009 - 11:58 pm
Rock Paper Shotgun Oct. 30, 2009 - 7:12 pm
Fidgit Oct. 27, 2009 - 11:10 pm
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
