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Sapphire Atomic HD 3870 X2 Video Card Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: June 18, 2008
Page: 9 of 11
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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.

GeForce GTX 280

Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 1680x1050 – LowScoreDifference
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2160.4 
GeForce GTX 280156.32.62%
GeForce 9800 GTX153.84.29%
Radeon HD 3870145.710.09%
GeForce 9800 GX2136.817.25%

GeForce GTX 280

Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 1920x1200 - LowScoreDifference
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2156.7 
GeForce GTX 280156.30.26%
GeForce 9800 GTX146.96.67%
GeForce 9800 GX2135.215.90%
Radeon HD 3870120.130.47%

GeForce GTX 280

Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 2560x1600 - LowScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280145.111.87%
GeForce 9800 GX2130.60.69%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2129.7 
GeForce 9800 GTX107.920.20%
Radeon HD 387072.878.16%

GeForce GTX 280

Half-Life 2: Episode Two -1680x1050 – HighScoreDifference
GeForce 9800 GTX137.99.36%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2126.1 
GeForce 9800 GX2125.40.56%
GeForce GTX 28089.341.21%
Radeon HD 387068.384.63%

GeForce GTX 280

Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 1920x1200 – HighScoreDifference
GeForce 9800 GTX116.39.20%
GeForce 9800 GX2111.14.32%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2106.5 
GeForce GTX 28070.351.49%
Radeon HD 387056.887.50%

GeForce GTX 280

Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 2560x1600 – HighScoreDifference
GeForce 9800 GTX71.340.91%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X250.6 
GeForce 9800 GX237.534.93%
GeForce GTX 28035.542.54%
Radeon HD 387034.944.99%

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