Half-Life 2
In case you've been living under a rock recently, Half-Life 2 has finally been released. Obviously such a major (and not to mention exceedingly good) game simply has to be part of our benchmarking suite, and so here it is. The timedemo we'll be using here involves one of the games prison levels. All settings were on high for benchmarking, and water reflections were set to 'Reflect All'.
While the two boards remain close at the CPU-limited resolution of 1024x768, as the resolution increases so the gap between the cards widens, to over 10 frames per second at 1600x1200, the superior fillrate of the A400 Ultra coming to the fore here.
The performance delta becomes smaller with the addition of AA and AF, but the 6800 Ultra still shows a comfortable lead here. Both boards offer stellar performance regardless of settings however.
