Half-Life 2

The XFX GeForce 6600 GDDR2 is slower than the RADEON X700, although the latter has a lower memory frequency. The “eye candy” mode is an exception – the XFX card is 2fps faster. The speed gain from the GPU overclocking done by XFX is still within 10%. Half-Life 2 is not a very demanding application even at the maximum graphics quality settings, so all entry-level graphics cards let you play this game normally – the frame rate is higher than 44fps.

The XFX GeForce 6600 GDDR2 matches the performance of the RADEON X700, while the RADEON X1300 PRO is slower and competes with the reference sample of the new GeForce with the exception of 1600x1200 resolution of the “pure speed” mode where the latter nearly overtakes the RADEON X700.