All Hail ATI

Half-life 2 and Valve has spoken! Radeon 9800 kicks the crap out of Nvidia. Must get a Radeon card before HL2 is released. -.-

The following table shows the performance of the NVIDIA cards in the DX8 code path of Halflife 2. After seeing those numbers, Valve explained that they were forced to choose DX8 as default for the GeForce FX 5200 and 5600 since those cards are unable to generate playable frame rates with the DX9 code path. Valve also stated that they did see big differences in performance when running a Radeon 9800 in DX8 and DX9 mode.

Damn, really have to dump my FX 5200.