F.E.A.R. Extraction Point

The Radeon HD 2600 based solutions have a very low minimum of speed in this test. It is below 10fps even with the overclocked MSI card while the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT easily provides 17fps and the GeForce 8600 GTS, 25 fps, which ensures normal gaming conditions considering the average speed of about 44fps. If you want to play at resolutions higher than 1280x1024, you need a graphics card like GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB or better.

Half-Life 2: Episode One

Both versions of ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4 deliver comfortable performance at a resolution of 1280x1024 pixels. They are somewhat faster than the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS, but the latter regains its leadership at the higher resolutions. This must be due to the Nvidia card’s having two times as many raster operators as the ATI card has, and the card’s rasterization performance is important for using full-screen antialiasing.