ATI Distributing Spurious HL2 Benchmarks

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 18, 2004 @04:35AM from the game-card-makers-get-involved-in-the-process dept.

BatonRogue writes "Apparently ATI provided a few Half Life 2 benchmarks to the press and some websites are actually using the benchmarks for their Half Life 2 performance reviews. AnandTech and HardOCP seem to be the only reputable sources of Half Life 2 performance data as they both put together their own benchmarks representative of Half Life 2 gameplay. AnandTech apparently went through every Half Life 2 level and put together a list of the 11 most stressful levels and then created 5 demos, while HardOCP put together two long benchmarks for their review. AnandTech and HardOCP's results appear to agree with each other, while the ATI-backed benchmarks show ATI with a huge performance lead in Half Life 2. Apparently (according to the AnandTech article), ATI was allowed to make their demos while at Valve before Half Life 2 was released, while Valve would not let NVIDIA remove any data from their time at Valve until the game was released. Politics at work as usual."

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Re:Could we see some reasonable cards reviewed? by Lord+Bear · 2004-11-18 06:46 · Score: 2, Interesting

My 'common man machine' (2.8Ghz P4, 1G RAM, ATI Radeon 9600 pro) gets between 30-70 fps depending on the stituation. It typically sits a 50-60 when not much is going on and drops down to about 30 in a heavy firefight. Its very playable.

I'm using these settings: 1024x768, all settings at high, 2x AA, 2x Ansio.

In other words it runs a heck of a lot faster than doom 3. :)