Zotac GeForce GTX 295 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 | 6.76% |
| Radeon HD 4870 X2 | 157.0 | 6.08% |
| EVGA GeForce GTX 285 FTW | 157.0 | 6.08% |
| GeForce GTX 285 | 152.0 | 2.70% |
| GeForce GTX 295 | 148.0 | |
| Radeon HD 4870 | 144.0 | 2.78% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 137.9 | 7.32% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 126.1 | 17.37% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 125.4 | 18.02% |
| GeForce GTX 260 (216 Proc.) | 125.0 | 18.40% |
| GeForce GTX 260 (192 Proc.) | 121.0 | 22.31% |
| Radeon HD 4850 | 116.2 | 27.37% |
| Radeon HD 4830 | 101.0 | 46.53% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ | 94.0 | 57.45% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 89.3 | 65.73% |
| GeForce 9800 GT | 80.0 | 85.00% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 68.3 | 116.69% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 1920×1200 – High | Score | Difference |
| Radeon HD 4870 X2 | 157.0 | 6.80% |
| Radeon HD 4850 X2 | 152.0 | 3.40% |
| GeForce GTX 295 | 147.0 | |
| EVGA GeForce GTX 285 FTW | 144.0 | 2.08% |
| GeForce GTX 285 | 135.0 | 8.89% |
| Radeon HD 4870 | 124.0 | 18.55% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 116.3 | 26.40% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 111.1 | 32.31% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 106.5 | 38.03% |
| GeForce GTX 260 (216 Proc.) | 105.0 | 40.00% |
| GeForce GTX 260 (192 Proc.) | 101.0 | 45.54% |
| Radeon HD 4850 | 97.2 | 51.23% |
| Radeon HD 4830 | 85.0 | 72.94% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ | 74.0 | 98.65% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 70.3 | 109.10% |
| GeForce 9800 GT | 63.0 | 133.33% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 56.8 | 158.80% |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two – 2560×1600 – High | Score | Difference |
| Radeon HD 4870 X2 | 130.0 | 5.69% |
| GeForce GTX 295 | 123.0 | |
| Radeon HD 4850 X2 | 108.0 | 13.89% |
| EVGA GeForce GTX 285 FTW | 95.0 | 29.47% |
| GeForce GTX 285 | 86.0 | 43.02% |
| Radeon HD 4870 | 75.0 | 64.00% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 71.3 | 72.51% |
| GeForce GTX 260 (216 Proc.) | 64.0 | 92.19% |
| GeForce GTX 260 (192 Proc.) | 61.0 | 101.64% |
| Radeon HD 4850 | 58.4 | 110.62% |
| Radeon HD 4830 | 51.0 | 141.18% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 50.6 | 143.08% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ | 39.0 | 215.38% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 37.5 | 228.00% |
| GeForce 9800 GT | 36.0 | 241.67% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 35.5 | 246.48% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 34.9 | 252.44% |