Half-Life 2 Performance

As with Doom 3, there are quite a few titles coming out that will use the HL2 Source engine to varying degrees. Of course, many of those will have additional graphics features like HDR, so we don’t know precisely how they'll perform. Still, the Sin: Episodes and HL2: Lost Coast and Aftermath are all looking promising.

Half Life 2

Half Life 2

Half Life 2

Half Life 2

With Half-Life 2, we get a clearer picture of how the X800 GT and the 6600 GT can perform better or worse than each other in the same game under different circumstances. In this case, the X800 GT is better suited to handle the greater memory demand of anti-aliasing, while the 6600 GT performs better than the X800 GT without AA. Either of these cards would be ideal given the buyer's specific preferences of games and settings. Also note that with all tested resolutions and settings coming at close to 60+ FPS (other than 1600x1200 4xAA) , all of these cards perform adequately.

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  • drinkmorejava - Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - link

    But how does the 6600gt compare in SCCT with SM3.0 on. It's not an unbiased test if you're not using the cards to the best of their abilities. SM3 was built to give a performance boost that would encourage people to by cards with it, no sense in leaving this out.
  • lifeguard1999 - Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - link

    Why?
  • coldpower27 - Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - link

    Remember the 6800 Strength lies in situations where AA & AF are applied. it's overall pixel fillrate is only 3.9GPixel compare to the 6600 GT 4.0GPixel, if not memory bandwidth limited, there is potential for 6600 GT to outperform 6800 Vanilla. Vertex Shader power doesn't matter also all that much as the amount 6600 GT has seems to be sufficient. Pixle Shader fillrate is one of the most important indicators of performance when comparing across the same architecture.
  • Cybercat - Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - link

    I was wondering about this myself. I've seen a number of benchmarks from other sources showing the 6800 to be the better performer. I hope Josh used a genuine NV41/42 6800 rather than just taking a NV45 and cutting it down.
  • Kagjes - Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - link

    hmm, could someone plz tell me what's the overclocking like with 6800s? is it worth buying at all?
  • DerekWilson - Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - link

    they have different strengths
  • jkostans - Sunday, September 25, 2005 - link

    I just built a computer for a buddy a X800 GT 256MB card plus a A64 3500+ in it. The 3500+ overclocked to 2.63GHz prime95 stable, and the video card was running solid at 580Mhz Core 595Mhz Memory and looped 3dmark tests all night without a single problem. Probably the best bang for the buck system I've built so far. Performance wise better than the 3800+ and X800 XL system I built prior to it (stock speeds) and a lot cheaper.
  • Thatguy97 - Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - link

    dont see how the x800 gt was a quality mid range solution as the x800 xl and x800 were much better cards

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