Sapphire HD 4870 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 Radeon HD 4870 | 170.0 | |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 164.9 | 3.09% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 160.4 | 5.99% |
| XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC) | 158 | 7.59% |
| GeForce GTX 260 | 157.0 | 8.28% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | 8.77% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 153.8 | 10.53% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 145.7 | 16.68% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 136.8 | 24.27% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1920×1200 – Low | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 | 165.0 | |
| XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC) | 157.0 | 5.10% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 156.7 | 5.30% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | 5.57% |
| GeForce GTX 260 | 153.0 | 7.84% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 149.8 | 10.15% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 146.9 | 12.32% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 135.2 | 22.04% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 120.1 | 37.39% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 2560×1600 – Low | Score | Difference |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 145.1 | 24.02% |
| XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC) | 137.0 | 17.09% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 130.6 | 11.62% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 129.7 | 10.85% |
| GeForce GTX 260 | 124.0 | 5.98% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 | 117.0 | |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 107.9 | 8.43% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 93.9 | 24.60% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 72.8 | 60.71% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1680×1050 – High | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 | 144.0 | |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 137.9 | 4.42% |
| XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC) | 134.0 | 7.46% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 126.1 | 14.20% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 125.4 | 14.83% |
| GeForce GTX 260 | 121.0 | 19.01% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 116.2 | 23.92% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 89.3 | 61.25% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 68.3 | 110.83% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1920×1200 – High | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 | 124.0 | |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 116.3 | 6.62% |
| XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC) | 113.0 | 9.73% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 111.1 | 11.61% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 106.5 | 16.43% |
| GeForce GTX 260 | 101.0 | 22.77% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 97.2 | 27.57% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 70.3 | 76.39% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 56.8 | 118.31% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 2560×1600 – High | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 | 75.0 | |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 71.3 | 5.19% |
| XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC) | 69.0 | 8.70% |
| GeForce GTX 260 | 61.0 | 22.95% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 58.4 | 28.42% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 50.6 | 48.22% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 37.5 | 100.00% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 35.5 | 111.27% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 34.9 | 114.90% |