Half-Life 2

The performance on the Canals map depends mostly on the graphics card’s ability to execute complex pixel shaders. Here, the WinFast A6600 GT TDH and the RADEON 9800 XT both do their job equally well. The latter is a tiny step ahead, but it doesn’t matter much. Both cards run our demo quite fast.

As we enable full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, the Leadtek WinFast A6600 GT slows down in comparison with the RADEON 9800 XT, but not too much. The Leadtek’s device is again impeded by its narrower 128-bit memory bus.

The Leadtek card is somewhat slower than the RADEON 9800 XT on the d3_c17_12 map: from 5% in 1024x768 to near 20% in 1600x1200.

The WinFast A6600 GT TDH is further behind the RADEON 9800 XT in the “eye candy” mode: up to 40% in 1600x1200 resolution.