Half-Life 2 RTX Hands-On - Path Tracing vs 2004 Original - How Far We've Come

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Half-Life 2
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Half-Life 2 (2004)
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Coming to all PC gamers on March 18th, we got early access to the Half-Life 2 RTX demo - and it's stunning. In an extended version of our Retro PC Time Capsule formula, John and Alex stack up the new RTX version of the classic game running on a 12900K/RTX 5090 up against the original 2004 release version of the game, operating on period-appropriate PC hardware. How far we've come in just over 20 years!

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