Halflife 2 Performance Revealed

Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
<a href="http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1862&quot; target=_blank>Anandtech: Halflife 2 Performance Revealed </a>
You'll see my own numbers tomorrow night at midnight, but we've been given the go ahead to reveal a bit of information about Half-Life 2. I'll keep it brief and to the point and will explain it in greater detail tomorrow night:
    * Valve is pissed at all of the benchmarking "optimizations" they've seen in the hardware community; * Half-Life 2 has a special NV3x codepath that was necessary to make NVIDIA's architecture perform reasonably under the game; * Valve recommends running geforce fx 5200 and 5600 cards in dx8 mode in order to get playable frame rates. * even with the special NV3x codepath, ATI is the clear performance leader under Half-Life 2 with the Radeon 9800 Pro hitting around 60 fps at 10x7. The 5900 ultra is noticeably slower with the special codepath and is horrendously slower under the default dx9 codepath; * the Radeon 9600 Pro performs very well - it is a good competitor of the 5900 ultra; * ATI didn't need these special optimizations to perform well and Valve insists that they have not optimized the game specifically for any vendor.
There you have it folks, there's much more coming tomorrow.

Comments

  • beatzbeatz i am a hamburger Member
    edited September 2003
    more detailed benchmarks here:
    extremetech

    :thumbup
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited September 2003
    NVidia must be ****ting bricks right now, or else trying to create another "performance optimized" driver.

    It's funny that the company won't actually acknowledge that the performance of their products are not up to par with other market offerings and attempt to fix the problem.

    Benchmark scores mean **** all when you can't play the newest games at a reasonable resolution & framerate with your new $699.95 CDN card (I'm talking the CrapForce FX 5900 Ultra).

    HL2 will be providing the game developer community with an engine for future games, just as they did with the HL1 engine, and look how many games utilize that engine today.
  • TekGamerTekGamer Earth
    edited September 2003
    Check this out if you have not already...

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11492
    Just how bad are things? Pretty bad. Even the Radeon 9600 Pro out-paces the GF FX by over 50%, while the Radeon 9800 Pro doubles the FX's feeble 30 fps. These are in benchmarks without AA or AF enabled. The game isn't even playable on anything below an FX 5900
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Someone is getting fired..........
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    nVida was over rated anyway, the GF4 Ti seires was the last time they produced any good hardware. I feel sorry for the people that bought that "Hair Dryer"
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited September 2003
    With results like these, I wonder how my Ti4600 will perform.

    Sheesh, I wonder how a GF3 card will perform!
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    TheSMJ: The results from the article indicate your TI4600 will perform only a bit worse than the FX5900.

    Man, I'm glad I have an ATi card in my primary rig!
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