Half-Life 2

A very heavy and graphically advanced application at the time of its release, Half-Life 2 is nothing extraordinary for today’s high-performance graphics cards and multi-GPU configurations. They all have a frame rate of 80fps and higher in this game, except for the single GeForce 7800 GTX which anyway allows playing comfortably with enabled 4x FSAA.

The GeForce 7800 GTX SLI can’t yield a playable frame rate in 1600x1200 when performing 8x SLI AA, while the RADEON X1800 XT CrossFire doesn’t find it a problem at all.

The CrossFire platform has no difficulties switching from 8x Super AA to 14x Super AA whereas the SLI system is too slow even in 1280x1024. The game is playable in 1024x768 on the SLI platform and the image quality is superb then.