Sapphire HD 4850 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. Th
is 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 Radeon HD 4850 | 164.9 | |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 160.4 | 2.81% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | 5.50% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 153.8 | 7.22% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 145.7 | 13.18% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 136.8 | 20.54% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1920×1200 – Low | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 156.7 | 4.61% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | 4.34% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 149.8 | |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 146.9 | 1.97% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 135.2 | 10.80% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 120.1 | 24.73% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 2560×1600 – Low | Score | Difference |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 145.1 | 54.53% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 130.6 | 39.08% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 129.7 | 38.13% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 107.9 | 14.91% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 93.9 | |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 72.8 | 28.98% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1680×1050 – High | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 137.9 | 18.67% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 126.1 | 8.52% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 125.4 | 7.92% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 116.2 | |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 89.3 | 30.12% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 68.3 | 70.13% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1920×1200 – High | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 116.3 | 19.65% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 111.1 | 14.30% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 106.5 | 9.57% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 97.2 | |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 70.3 | 38.26% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 56.8 | 71.13% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 2560×1600 – High | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 71.3 | 22.09% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 58.4 | |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 50.6 | 15.42% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 37.5 | 55.73% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 35.5 | 64.51% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 34.9 | 67.34% |