Half
Life 2 - Performance
|
|
Minimum
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Maximum
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Average
|
|
HIS
X800GT 12x10 0x/0x
|
19
|
95
|
51.84
|
|
HIS
X800GT 10x7 4x/8x
|
17
|
81
|
42.25
|
|
6600GT
10x7 0x/0x
|
22
|
94
|
42.13
|
|
6600GT
10x7 4x/4x
|
17
|
81
|
38.66
|
In
Half Life 2, things are a bit clearer than with Doom 3. The HIS
X800GT will quite happily run at 1280x1024, 0x AntiAliasing, 0x
Anisotropic Filtering, while the 6600GT must remain at the lower
1024x768 resolution. If we drop the HIS X800GT to 1024x768, we
can then add some enhancements, indeed 4x AntiAliasing, 8x Anisotropic
Filtering is quite possible, especially when you consider that
the 'Follow Freeman' level is quite an intensive level, so you
should get better rates in the majority of the game. 1600x1200
is not something you will be able to run with the HIS X800GT in
Half Life 2, but when compared with a 6600GT, you will find it
can give you either a slightly higher resolution or greater graphic
enhancements.
Half
Life 2 - Image Quality
6600GT
Left, HIS X800GT Right
0xAA/0xAF
Left, 4xAA/4xAF Right
Unlike
Doom 3, Half Life has many environments that feature urban textures
and angles, so AntiAliasing and Anisotropic filtering do make
a big difference. When the image quality is so close between
the 6600GT and the X800GT, it really does become quite subjective
to pick one over the other, but I’m going to go in favour
of the 6600GT on this one; I like that the 6600GT’s image
is a little sharper which with lower graphical enhancements,
does make it a little easier to define objects on the distance.
Battlefield
2 - Performance
|
|
Minimum
|
Maximum
|
Average
|
|
HIS
X800GT 10x7 0x/0x
|
44
|
89
|
59.94
|
|
6600GT
10x7 0x/0x
|
36
|
77
|
57.16
|
Battlefield
2 is very intense for graphics cards, and we chose one of the
heavier maps for graphical performance testing - the Songhua
Stalemate. Both the 6600GT and the HIS X800GT refused to give
decent rates at 1280x1024, bringing us down to 1024x768. At
first glance, the HIS X800GT would seem to be better than the
6600GT, however the actual experience of gameplay tells a different
story to the graph, with both cards being too similar in frame
rates to distinguish between them. It is quite difficult to
get a repeatable run with Battlefield 2 as pretty much anything
can happen, and your spawn point is often not the same twice
in a row. Suffice to say, the HIS X800GT can and does play Battlefield
2 well enough, although for online play (just to be sure) you
may want to lower some of the in game settings to medium.
Battlefield
2 - Image Quality
6600GT
0xAA/0xAF Left, HIS X800GT 0xAA/0xAF Right
For
Battlefield 2 I’m not going to pick one over the other,
the quality is pretty much identical. Both have a good image,
but the game really does benefit from some Anisotropic filtering;
some AntiAliasing certainly wouldn’t hurt either. Unfortunately
the HIS X800GT won’t be giving you any unless you drop down
to 800x600, which defeats the object of improving the image quality
in the first place; I might drop down to that resolution to speed
up the game, but not to improve it visually.
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