First Official Half-life 2 Benchmarks
The first benchmarks of the official release of Half-life 2 are out. They show that ATI doesn't have significant advantage over Nvidia cards. Morever the game seems to scale and work surprisingly well with older machines. New machines with the latest hardware can run 1600x1200 with all the bells and whistles nicely.
As for calling one video card a "winner" over the other, it just does not seem feasible and would likely be irresponsible to do so. ATI’s X800 series has not thrashed NVIDIA’s 6800 series silicon as many expected. Half Life 2 simply plays great on video cards from both NVIDIA and ATI. So let’s make this clear. The ATI Radeon X800 series of video cards will deliver a stellar Half Life 2 gaming experience. Also… The NVIDIA GeForce 6800 and 6600 series of video cards will deliver a stellar Half Life 2 gaming experience. There are simply no losers to be found if you have recently upgraded your video card. You have likely all made good gaming investments.
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