GeForce GTX 280 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, under two scenarios. First with quality set to maximum, bilinear filtering and anti-aliasing set to x0. This configuration we are calling “low” on the charts and tables below. Then we maxed out image quality settings, enabling x16 anisotropic filtering and 16xQCS anti-aliasing. This configuration we are calling “high” on our charts and tables. We updated the game up to the June 9th 2008 patch.
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1680×1050 – Low | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 160.4 | 2.62% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 153.8 | 1.63% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 145.7 | 7.28% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 136.8 | 14.25% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1920×1200 – Low | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 156.7 | 0.26% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 146.9 | 6.40% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 135.2 | 15.61% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 120.1 | 30.14% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 2560×1600 – Low | Score | Difference |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 145.1 | |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 130.6 | 11.10% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 129.7 | 11.87% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 107.9 | 34.48% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 72.8 | 99.31% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1680×1050 – High | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 137.9 | 54.42% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 126.1 | 41.21% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 125.4 | 40.43% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 89.3 | |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 68.3 | 30.7% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1920×1200 – High | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 116.3 | 65.43% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 111.1 | 58.04% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 106.5 | 51.49% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 70.3 | |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 56.8 | 23.77% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 2560×1600 – High | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 71.3 | 100.85% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 50.6 | 42.54% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 37.5 | 5.63% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 35.5 | |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 34.9 | 1.72% |