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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:Oh boy here we go again. by glwtta · · Score: 5, Funny

    All I know is that my Radeon 9800 makes my vi look damn good!

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  2. Re:Yawn... by nathanh · · Score: 5, Funny
    The fact is *you* can't see the difference. It's the same thing with audiophiles/musicians and complaints about mp3 compression.

    Audiophiles are idiots and musicians are often tone deaf.

    Audiophiles can hear artifacts in high quality mp3s,

    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.

    Ever hear people talk about movies and how "the human eye can only see 24 fps"?

    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.