Half-Life 2: Lost Coast / Episode 1

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (Direct X)


Lost Coast is the free technology demo that Valve created to show off their HDR rendering technique.  Because this method of doing HDR (high dynamic range) lighting uses integer math instead of floating point, both ATI and NVIDIA cards can do both HDR and AA at the same time. 

BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB Review - Graphics Cards 54

BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB Review - Graphics Cards 55

BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB Review - Graphics Cards 56

BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB Review - Graphics Cards 57

BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB Review - Graphics Cards 58

BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB Review - Graphics Cards 59

BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB Review - Graphics Cards 60

BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB Review - Graphics Cards 61

At 1600×1200 the 8800 GTS 320MB does very well here and nearly matches the performance of the 640MB version and leaves the ATI X19xx series well behind.  However, above that resolution, the 8800 GTS 320MB doesn’t fare nearly as well compared to its older brother. 

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