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| Half-Life 2: Episode Two |
Half-Life 2 is a popular franchise and we benchmark the video cards using Episode Two with the aid of HOC Half-Life 2 Episode Two benchmarking utility using the “HOC Demo 1” provided by this program. We ran the game in three 16:10 widescreen resolutions, 1680x1050, 1920x1200 and 2560x1600, under two scenarios. First with quality set to maximum, bilinear filtering and anti-aliasing set to x0. This configuration we are calling “low” on the charts and tables below. Then we maxed out image quality settings, enabling x16 anisotropic filtering and 16xQCS anti-aliasing. This configuration we are calling “high” on our charts and tables. We updated the game up to the June 9th 2008 patch. 
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 1680x1050 – Low | Score | Difference | | Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 160.4 | 2.62% | | GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 153.8 | 1.63% | | Radeon HD 3870 | 145.7 | 7.28% | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 136.8 | 14.25% |

| Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 1920x1200 – Low | Score | Difference | | Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 156.7 | 0.26% | | GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 146.9 | 6.40% | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 135.2 | 15.61% | | Radeon HD 3870 | 120.1 | 30.14% |

| Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 2560x1600 – Low | Score | Difference | | GeForce GTX 280 | 145.1 | | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 130.6 | 11.10% | | Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 129.7 | 11.87% | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 107.9 | 34.48% | | Radeon HD 3870 | 72.8 | 99.31% |

| Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 1680x1050 – High | Score | Difference | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 137.9 | 54.42% | | Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 126.1 | 41.21% | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 125.4 | 40.43% | | GeForce GTX 280 | 89.3 | | | Radeon HD 3870 | 68.3 | 30.7% |

| Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 1920x1200 – High | Score | Difference | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 116.3 | 65.43% | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 111.1 | 58.04% | | Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 106.5 | 51.49% | | GeForce GTX 280 | 70.3 | | | Radeon HD 3870 | 56.8 | 23.77% |

| Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 2560x1600 – High | Score | Difference | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 71.3 | 100.85% | | Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 50.6 | 42.54% | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 37.5 | 5.63% | | GeForce GTX 280 | 35.5 | | | Radeon HD 3870 | 34.9 | 1.72% |
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