GeForce GTX 260 with 216 cores Video Card Review
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
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Half-Life 2 is a popular franchise and we benchmark the video cards using Episode Two with the aid of HOC Half-Life 2 Episode Two benchmarking utility using the “HOC Demo 1” provided by this program. We ran the game in three 16:10 widescreen resolutions, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, and 2560×1600, with quality set to maximum, x16 anisotropic filtering and 16xQCS anti-aliasing. The results below are the average number of frames per second (FPS) achieved by each card.
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1680×1050 – High | Score | Difference |
| Radeon HD 4850 X2 | 158.0 | 26.40% |
| Radeon HD 4870 X2 | 157.0 | 25.60% |
| Radeon HD 4870 | 144.0 | 15.20% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 137.9 | 10.32% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 126.1 | 0.88% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 125.4 | 0.32% |
| GeForce GTX 260 (216 Proc.) | 125.0 | |
| GeForce GTX 260 (192 Proc.) | 121.0 | 3.31% |
| Radeon HD 4850 | 116.2 | 7.57% |
| Radeon HD 4830 | 101.0 | 23.76% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ | 94.0 | 32.98% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 89.3 | 39.98% |
| GeForce 9800 GT | 80.0 | 56.25% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 68.3 | 83.02% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1920×1200 – High | Score | Difference |
| Radeon HD 4870 X2 | 157.0 | 49.52% |
| Radeon HD 4850 X2 | 152.0 | 44.76% |
| Radeon HD 4870 | 124.0 | 18.10% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 116.3 | 10.76% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 111.1 | 5.81% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 106.5 | 1.43% |
| GeForce GTX 260 (216 Proc.) | 105.0 | |
| GeForce GTX 260 (192 Proc.) | 101.0 | 3.96% |
| Radeon HD 4850 | 97.2 | 8.02% |
| Radeon HD 4830 | 85.0 | 23.53% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ | 74.0 | 41.89% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 70.3 | 49.36% |
| GeForce 9800 GT | 63.0 | 66.67% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 56.8 | 84.86% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 2560×1600 – High | Score | Difference |
| Radeon HD 4870 X2 | 130.0 | 103.13% |
| Radeon HD 4850 X2 | 108.0 | 68.75% |
| Radeon HD 4870 | 75.0 | 17.19% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 71.3 | 11.41% |
| GeForce GTX 260 (216 Proc.) | 64.0 | |
| GeForce GTX 260 (192 Proc.) | 61.0 | 4.92% |
| Radeon HD 4850 | 58.4 | 9.59% |
| Radeon HD 4830 | 51.0 | 25.49% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 50.6 | 26.48% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ | 39.0 | 64.10% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 37.5 | 70.67% |
| GeForce 9800 GT | 36.0 | 77.78% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 35.5 | 80.28% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 34.9 | 83.38% |