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Massive Development's Aquanox
is a gorgeous looking game engine. AquaMark, the
benchmark derived from the game, is a graphics card's worst
nightmare.
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| Aquanox Benchmarks |
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Marine Frame Rate
Races |
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Aquanox AquaMark is
a "torture test" in every sense of the word. The
objective of the test is to totally swamp the graphics
subsystem. You won't see very high frame rates here
from any card, including a GeForce3. Here the Gainward
GeForce3 Power Pack !!! Golden Sample performs admirably.
Additionally, at its screaming fast overclocked speed, we
see a 10 - 22% performance gain.
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| DroneZ Benchmarks |
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Moving right along |
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Zetha's DroneZ is another DirectX 8 benchmark with all
the Pixel Shader features, bells and whistles turned on.
We ran our test in the "GeForce3 Bump" setting with
Environment Mapped Bump Mapping enabled.
Here DroneZ is
powered well by the Gainward GeForce3 Gold Sample card.
At the overclocked 260 core and 560 memory speeds, we see up
to a 17% gain. Again, this card was stable and
artifact free at this setting.
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| Quake 3 Arena |
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Not to be
forgotten |
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Who would have
ever thought that we would see 100 frames per second at any
color depth while at 1600X1200 resolution. 103.7 fps is a
full 22% gain versus the 81.7 fps score at stock clock
speed. Again, the Gainward Golden Sample card puts its
money where its mouth is.
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