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:

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The X1900 XTX shows a lot of power in our Canals09 level run through; it holds a 20% advantage over the R520 and the 7800 GTX 512 in average frame rate and is also capable of keeping the minimum at 13 frames higher than the NVIDIA cards. 

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Again we see that SLI has a scalability advantage here as the 7800 GTX 512s running together are able to nearly catch up to the lead that the single X1900 XTX had in our previous results.

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