Half-Life 2 – Canals09

Our second HL2 run through takes place in the Canals portion of the game where there are a lot of water reflections to deal with.  Here’s a typical scene from our run through:

Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP 2DHTV Video Card Review - Graphics Cards 66

Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP 2DHTV Video Card Review - Graphics Cards 67

Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP 2DHTV Video Card Review - Graphics Cards 68

Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP 2DHTV Video Card Review - Graphics Cards 69

Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP 2DHTV Video Card Review - Graphics Cards 70

This level of HL2 is much more shader intensive as the water scenes take up a lot of GPU processing time.  ATI’s X1800 XT GPU has an advantage here right off the bat in both with and without AA/AF enabled.  The Asus card improves on the reference cards performance by 7.5% at its best.

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