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Initial Half-Life 2 Benchmarks Released

Posted by simoniker on from the who's-better-who's-best? dept.

dfj225 writes "According to an article on ExtremeTech.com, it looks like ATI has the lead in Half-Life 2 graphics card performance. Valve benchmarked their new game using the top cards from both ATI and nVidia. Results show the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro drawing around 60 FPS while the nVidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra only draws around 30 in Half-Life 2's DX9 full precision tests. Read the article to see results on other tests that Valve ran." Update: 09/11 13:06 GMT by M : Another article about the presentation.

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  1. Re:Application-specific "optimizations" by swordboy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    or if they've made general driver-wide optimizations that happen to also help Half-Life.

    It doesn't matter...

    Coming is the day where the driver will optimize itself for all popular games, on-the-fly. What is wrong with that? A race car team is allowed to optimize their car for the particular track on which they are competing. This is the same thing.

    Who cares? Soon, we'll have drivers that constantly monitor via internet for "best optimizations" versus the installed software. Ultimately, if the card can consistently output over 30fps, I doubt that anyone will bother with these penile comparisons anymore.

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