Counter-Strike: Source

Although running on the same game engine as Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source has less complex scenes. It is a multiplayer shooter, as you know, and the quality of the graphics in this genre is of less importance than in solo games. Here, the GeForce 6600 GT AGP is almost on the same level with the RADEON 9800 XT.

The new GeForce is losing its ground in the “eye candy”, again due to the low memory bus. The gap is the widest in 1600x1200.

We have almost the same picture on the Piranesi level: the RADEON 9800 XT and the GeForce 6600 GT are almost equally fast in the “pure speed” mode, but the ATI card is still a tiny step ahead.

FSAA and anisotropic filtering enabled, we again see the GeForce 6600 GT falling farther behind the RADEON 9800 XT.





