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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 | | | GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | 2.62% | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 153.8 | 4.29% | | Radeon HD 3870 | 145.7 | 10.09% | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 136.8 | 17.25% |

| Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 1920x1200 - Low | Score | Difference | | Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 156.7 | | | GeForce GTX 280 | 156.3 | 0.26% | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 146.9 | 6.67% | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 135.2 | 15.90% | | Radeon HD 3870 | 120.1 | 30.47% |

| Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 2560x1600 - Low | Score | Difference | | GeForce GTX 280 | 145.1 | 11.87% | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 130.6 | 0.69% | | Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 129.7 | | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 107.9 | 20.20% | | Radeon HD 3870 | 72.8 | 78.16% |

| Half-Life 2: Episode Two -1680x1050 – High | Score | Difference | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 137.9 | 9.36% | | Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 126.1 | | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 125.4 | 0.56% | | GeForce GTX 280 | 89.3 | 41.21% | | Radeon HD 3870 | 68.3 | 84.63% |

| Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 1920x1200 – High | Score | Difference | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 116.3 | 9.20% | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 111.1 | 4.32% | | Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 106.5 | | | GeForce GTX 280 | 70.3 | 51.49% | | Radeon HD 3870 | 56.8 | 87.50% |

| Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 2560x1600 – High | Score | Difference | | GeForce 9800 GTX | 71.3 | 40.91% | | Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 50.6 | | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | 37.5 | 34.93% | | GeForce GTX 280 | 35.5 | 42.54% | | Radeon HD 3870 | 34.9 | 44.99% |
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