News Valve Half Life 2 Presentation and Benchmarks at Beyond3D

We all now know that it's going to run better on ATi hardware, but take a look at Beyond3D's article anyway. They look at the DirectX9 technology usage in Half Life 2 shown at ATI's recent "Shader Day". They also take a look at the performance results from Valve and their own benchmarking session and look behind these results and Valves statements on the performance:

"Valve appeared to be very happy with the way they were able to implement DirectX9 into their engine and the way it utilised the hardware. The nature of the way they were able to implement DirectX9 allowed them to more effectively expose the underlying hardware and make efficient use of it. They cite the example of the Radeon 9800 able to run the full DirectX9 functionality at the same performance as the DX8 path despite the fact that the DirectX9 path has a greater feature utilisation. From here on in, anything new added will only be DirectX9."

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