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Benchmarks & Comparisons with Doom 3 - Multi-player
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Doom 3
Our first round of Doom 3 benchmarks focused on single-player performance.  In this round we'll run a series of multi-player tests to see how things unfold.  These timedemos were run with our custom "HH_Frag2" demo, which is a recording of a five-player on-line match that took place in the "Frag Chamber" map area. We ran benchmarks with Doom 3 set to its "High-Quality" mode at resolutions of 1,024 x 768 and 1,280 x 1,024 without any anti-aliasing enabled and then with 4X AA and 8X Aniso enabled concurrently.  Note: Doom 3 enables 8X anisotropic filtering automatically when set to "High Quality" in the game's control panel.

The Mobility Radeon X700 performed somewhat better in out custom Doom 3 multi-player test.  At 1024x768 with anti-aliasing disabled, the MR X700 his a respectable 50.4 frames per second.  And in the same configuration at 1280x1024, it hit just broke 34 FPS.  Turning on anti-aliasing though, dragged performance down significantly, although you could argue that an on-line death match would be playable at 1024x768 with 4X AA enabled.


Marco Chiappetta

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com

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