Mid-Range Graphics Card Warfare - AMD vs. nVidia (Q4 2006)

Half Life 2 (Lost Coast)

Version and / or Patch Used: Unpatched

Timedemo or Level Used: Custom Timedemo

Developer Homepage: http://www.valvesoftware.com

Product Homepage: http://www.half-life2.com

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By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism, responsiveness and new HDR technology, Half-Life 2 Lost Coast opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around him, from the physical environment to the behaviors even the emotions of both friends and enemies.

We benchmark Half Life 2 Lost Coast with our own custom timedemos as to avoid possible driver optimizations using the "record demo_name" command and loading the timedemo with the "timedemo demo_name" command - For a full list of the commands, click here.

Moving to Lost Coast we begin to see the cards separate themselves - the Radeon X1950PRO wins again thanks to the increased core in our non-HDR tests and the Radeon X1650XT has a good jump on the 7600GT, though when we move to our HDR results we see all the cards even out especially when we move to 1600x1200 and beyond.