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Half Life 2 Benchmarks make me feel very old

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The 6800 Ultra was such a cool looking card!

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The 6800 Ultra was such a cool looking card!

i had that one with an Athlon 64 Fx-57 cpu, ran great and back then AMD was the N1 in cpu's :D

Let's agree to disagree

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Half Life 2 makes me feel old

"We're all in this together, might as well be friends" Tom, Toonami.

 

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Sega master system 2 makes me feel old lawl

Let's agree to disagree

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I remember playing this epic game on my 128mb intel integrated card @1024x768 and was blown away  :o

Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013).

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More than ten years later.... Nvidia and Ati (AMD) still going at it...

 

I remember Nvidia's fx-5xxx series had performance issues with direct X 9 and shader performance. ATi took the crown with the 9700pro and then the 9800pro. In the next gen Nvidia sorted their issues and the 6xxx series was very good across the board. I couldn't afford a 6800gt being a kid but I got a 6600gt which served me well for many years.

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Also this is a good way to illustrate the law of diminishing returns. How it is has become extremely difficult now to improve graphics further as we are stuck in the uncanny valley. You now need to massively increase the amount of complexity you are rendering in order to just make things look slightly better to the naked eye. This is very hard on GPUs.

 

This was 1993 graphics

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Eleven years later this was 2004 graphics

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Jump forward another eleven years to 2015

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There is a clear improvement, a big improvement from 2004 to 2015.

But how about the previous eleven years before that! Imagine the pace of progress to go from Doom1 to Doom 3 and Half Life 2 in a decade.

In the next decade it will be very hard to wow us with graphics.

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I used a computer before Doom came out... wow, I had forgot what year/era that was until now.

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Its called diminishing returns.

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precisely my point. Killing our frmerates for very small visual pay off..
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/1546

Half-Life 2 Benchmarks from 2004!

dude your sixteen.... I remember when half life 2 came out and how awesome it looked !...I was a freshmen in high school

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