Sapphire Atomic HD 3870 X2 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 fi
ltering 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 | |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | 2.62% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 153.8 | 4.29% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 145.7 | 10.09% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 136.8 | 17.25% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1920×1200 – Low | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 156.7 | |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | 0.26% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 146.9 | 6.67% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 135.2 | 15.90% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 120.1 | 30.47% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 2560×1600 – Low | Score | Difference |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 145.1 | 11.87% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 130.6 | 0.69% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 129.7 | |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 107.9 | 20.20% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 72.8 | 78.16% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two -1680×1050 – High | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 137.9 | 9.36% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 126.1 | |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 125.4 | 0.56% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 89.3 | 41.21% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 68.3 | 84.63% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1920×1200 – High | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 116.3 | 9.20% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 111.1 | 4.32% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 106.5 | |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 70.3 | 51.49% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 56.8 | 87.50% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 2560×1600 – High | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 71.3 | 40.91% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 50.6 | |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 37.5 | 34.93% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 35.5 | 42.54% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 34.9 | 44.99% |