XFX GeForce 6800 GS Review – NVIDIA’s Mid-Range Monster

Half-Life 2 – Town01

Half-Life 2 (Direct X)

This was one of the most anticipated games in PC history, and even with the troubles it has had with Steam, HL2 drives-on as a great game and great benchmark for PC systems.  Below are the default settings we used for our testing today.  Actually, we enabled Reflect All instead of Reflect World and AA and AF were enabled where indicated.

Here is a typical scene from our Town run through:

Half-Life 2 used to be one of ATI’s stronger titles in our benchmark suite but the 6800 GS is still considerably faster than the X1600 XT.  So we don’t dwell on the negative, check out the performance leaps in SLI mode!  We see nearly 60% improvement in overall performance at 1600×1200 with AA and AF enabled.