MSI RX800: Radeon X800 XT (PCI Express)

Name: MSI RX800: Radeon X800 XT (PCI Express) - Page 12
Brand: MSI

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, November 23, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT

Benchmarks &Comparisons With Doom 3 - Multi-Player

The Wait Is Over!.

Doom 3

The first round of Doom 3 focused on single-player performance. Now we'll run a round of multiplayer tests and see how things unfold. These tests were taken with our custom "HH_Frag2" demo, which is a recording of a five-player online match 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 1,600 x 1,200 without any anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering enabled and then with 4X AA and 8X Aniso enabled concurrently.

The GeForce 6800 GT continued its winning ways in our custom Doom 3 multi-player benchmark. In this round of testing, the GeForce's margins of victory were a bit larger than in the single-player tests though. With this demo the GeForce 6800 GT was up to 26% faster then either of the Radeon X800 XTs we tested. It seems like ATi still has a bit of work to do on their drivers with regard to Doom 3 performance.

Tags: MSI, Radeon, PC, Pre, MS, PCI Express, XP, pci, express, XT, X8

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