Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 is quite an easy test for today’s graphics cards, so owners of a PowerColor X800 GTO 16 or Radeon X800 XL card may be sure of an average frame rate of near 50fps even in 1600x1200 with turned-on FSAA and anisotropic filtering. The 16 TMUs make the PowerColor card the leader among the participating devices. The GeForce 6800 GS roughly corresponds to the Radeon X800 GTO in the “eye candy” mode and the Radeon X1600 XT performs poorly as it can’t cope with the large textures the world of Half-Life 2 abounds in.

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast

In the pre mode PowerColor X800 GTO 16 outperforms both: GeForce 6800 GS as well as Radeon X1600 XT, however its performance is still too low to be considered acceptable for comfortable gaming in any of the standard resolutions. When we shift to eye candy mode, GeForce 6800 GS and our today’s hero switch places. This is probably cause by the fact that PowerColor X800 GTO 16 cannot boast high performance during texture-rich pixel shaders processing.