Sapphire Radeon X800 XT - PCI Express

Name: Sapphire Radeon X800 XT - PCI Express - Page 12
Brand: Sapphire

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT

Benchmarks &Comparisons With Doom 3 - Multi-Player

The Wait Is Over!.

Doom 3

The first round of Doom 3 tests focused on single-player performance. This time around though, we'll take a look at a few tests using a custom multiplayer demo to see how things unfold. These tests were taken with our custom "HH_Frag2" demo, which is a recording of a five-player on-line match in the "Frag Chamber" map. 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 AA enabled and then with 4X anti-aliasing and 8X aniso enabled.

The ATi powered cards didn't fare quite as well in the Doom 3 multiplayer tests. The graphs look somewhat similar to the ones on the previous page, but the GeForce 6800 GT's performance advantage jumped a few percentage points in the multiplayer tests. This time around, the GeForce 6800 GT was up to 26% faster than any of the Radeon X800 XTs.

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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