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H.A.W.X (2009)

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I’ve been benchmarking PC games since 2005. My first build was an AMD Athlon 3200+ with an NVIDIA 6600 GT.

To celebrate two decades of benchmarking, I decided to revisit a selection of tests I’ve run over the years and see how they perform on modern hardware. This project took several months to complete, and during that time I actually swapped CPUs—from a Ryzen 5600X to the 9950X. In this video, all of the benchmark numbers are from the 5600X + RTX 3090 system.

I focused only on games with repeatable built-in or standalone benchmark tools, running at least one benchmark from every year between 2005 and 2025, for a total of 52 benchmarks.

Every test was run at the highest settings unless otherwise noted, with DLSS always disabled. All benchmarks were run at 4K, and most were also run at 8K. The gameplay footage you’ll see on screen won’t always match the exact results—it could be from the 4K run, the 8K run, the 5600X, or the 9950X.

There’s something especially satisfying about rerunning benchmarks that once pushed my 2005 rig to the limit, and watching them fly today—like revisiting an RPG boss fight years later after leveling up your character.

00:00 Intro
00:39 Half Life 2: Lost Coast (2005)
00:48 FEAR (2005)
01:00 Company of Heroes (2006)
01:10 Lost Planet (2007)
01:20 Stalker: Clear Sky (2008)
01:34 Far Cry 2 (2008)
01:49 Devil May Cry 4 (2008)
02:04 PT Boats: Knights of the Sea (2009)
02:17 Cryostasis (2009)
02:34 Stalker: Call of Pripyat (2009)
02:57 Resident Evil 5 (2009)
03:08 Tom Clancy's HAWX (2009)
03:22 Metro 2033 (2010)
03:39 Mafia II (2010)
03:55 Lost Plant II (2010)
04:11 Just Cause 2 (2010)
04:28 Batman: Arkham City (2010)
04:41 Dirt 3 (2011)
04:55 Sniper Elite V2 (2012)
05:14 Company of Heroes (2013)
05:30 Bioshock Infinite (2013)
05:41 GRID 2 (2013)
05:52 Metro 2033 Redux (2014)
06:02 Metro Last Light (2014)
06:12 Sleeping Does (2014)
06:25 Thief (2014)
06:35 Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014)
06:45 GRIID Autosport (2014)
06:55 Batman: Arkham Knight (2015)
07:06 Dirt Rally (2015)
07:23 Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition (2015)
07:35 Steep (2016)
07:46 Gear of War 4 (2016)
07:59 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (2016)
08:14 Tom Clancy's The Division (2016)
08:28 Far Cry Primal (2016)
08:44 Assassin's Creed : Origins (2017)
08:53 Middle Earth Shadow of War (2017)
09:04 For Honor (2017)
09:14 Strange Brigade (2018)
09:34 Metro Exodus (2019)
09:47 Borderlands 3 (2019)
10:03 Gears 5 (2019)
10:19 GRID (2019)
10:33 Mafia II Definitive Edition (2020)
10:46 Godfall (2020)
11:02 Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (2021)
11:21 Far Cry 6 (2021)
11:42 Chernobylite Complete (2021)
11:56 Dying Light 2 (2022)
12:15 Assassin's Creed: Mirage (2023)
12:28 Black Myth: Wukong (2024)
12:44 Dune Awakening (2025)

OST (in order)

Max Payne (2001)
Mafia (2002)
Far Cry (2004)
The Witcher (2007)