EVGA GeForce GTX 280 1GB Superclocked Review

Half Life II: Episode 2

Half Life 2: Episode 2 is the newest installment in Valve’s long running Half Life series and this is without a doubt the best looking game in the series. For this benchmark a typical 10 minute exterior gameplay sequence was prerecorded and then played back using the in-game timedemo feature. The results were recorded with FRAPS.


1280 x 1024



1600 x 1200


2048 x 1536


Since this isn’t an overly stressful game on modern systems, we only see a clear distinction between the cards at the highest resolutions and maxed out IQ settings. It seemed like the minimum frames per second stayed pretty constant for the GTX 280 which shows its power even though these speeds seemed to fluctuate oddly from one resolution to another.