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Initial Half-Life 2 Benchmarks Released
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.
Sure, they are compiling Direct X 9 for Linux as I'm writing these lines.
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
Is it just me, or is ATI pulling a real turnaround? They used to be the underdog for so long -- their drivers weren't the greatest, their marketshare was second-fiddle, and they initially missed out on the Xbox contract. I never thought I'd see the day where nVidia, which is practically the industry standard for gaming, might be challenged on such a thing as actual performance.
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Oh well, at least communication between hardware and game developers has improved to the point that I won't need to specify to the game whether I have a Hercules, Tandy, or Trident chipset...
The coolest voice ever.
... you insensitive clod!
Seriously though, are they allowing for people with older cards? (UT 2003 ran fine on my Voodoo3 and still looked pretty darn good, even w/o transparency, anti-aliasing, or any of the other modern GFX buzzwords)
All I know is that my Radeon 9800 makes my vi look damn good!
sic transit gloria mundi
It took me ages to realise that "FPS games" were "first-person shooter games" - owing to all the hardcore gamers posting on /., losing sleep over small video card performance enhancements I always thought it meant "frames per second games"...
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.
What are you talking about? The Pentium IS #5.
Whoops...wrong century.
Audiophiles are idiots and musicians are often tone deaf.
Audiophiles can supposedly hear artifacts produced by gravity waves passing through solid-gold oxygen-free "ribbon" cables. Stop paying attention to their ramblings: it only encourages them.
Actually I think you made that one up. Every movie buff knows that film frames are double shuttered to play at 48fps. Films played with single shutter are noticeably flickery. True movie buffs also know that the director can't pan a shot too fast or he'll get stutter, so they'd be aware that the human eye sees rates in excess of 24 fps.
I claim shenanigans. I don't think anybody claimed that "the human eye can only see 24 fps". You just made it up because you didn't have an argument.
Yeah, but the GeForce FX works better with emacs! Let's see how many flamewars we can run in parallel.
"Are you being weird, or sarcastic?" said Emma. I said I didn't know because I get the two feelings mixed up.
well you cant beat my 8500 when it comes to installing a new driver, rebooting and having windows tell you multiple files are corrupted. the 2d on this card is fantastic and the dos-style text was so crisp!
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. -- George Carlin
Matrox! Matrox! Matrox!
... What?? It could happen!
Go Matrox!
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