Doom 3 Performance

Doom 3 performance has been led by NVIDIA ever since the game came out, but last week ATI released a driver which incorporated quite a few performance enhancements for OGL based games. The playing field has certainly changed quite a bit over the weekend, but is it enough to topple the new NVIDIA part?

Without 4xAA enabled, NVIDIA parts still clearly lead ATI hardware. The 7800 GTX 512 performs very well, scoring better at 2048x1536 than the X1800 XT does at 1600x1200.

Doom 3 Performance
When 4xAA is enabled, we see ATI hardware get a huge boost. The benefit from ATI's latest driver is actually enough for the X1800 XT to topple the original 7800 GTX in performance under Doom 3. Of course, for the price difference one would hope the X1800 XT would lead the 7800 GTX in all cases. The clear winner here is still the 7800 GTX 512.

Doom 3 Performance 4xAA


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  • ElFenix - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link

    i've been asking them to hire an editor for a few years now, but i'm pretty sure they haven't taken my advice yet. every once in a while they post an article that is just unreadable due to the run on and compound sentences.
  • yacoub - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link

    It's worse when you have a journalism degree. It drives you up a wall to read so many grammatical and spelling errors. Even so I'd rather they put the money into doing more 'real world' style tests instead of just these Top of the Charts/ GPU with the Biggest Dick contests.
  • phusg - Thursday, November 17, 2005 - link

    It could be worse, at least they updated the article to change this comical spelling mistake. Puts them in line with the rest of the computer industry where the testing phase of the development cycle is outsourced to the consumer ;-)
  • Methusela - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link

    This thing just destroys every other single card, and every other SLI configuration in almost every test! Yikes. I guess it had better do so at $700 apiece, though.

    Maybe this will push the price of the 7800GT and GTX models down in a couple of weeks? Cost-conscious buyers like myself can only hope so.
  • route66 - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link

    Sick!
  • Googer - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link

    Holy Handgranades 54.4 GB/s Memory Bandwith!
  • pol II - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link

    Nice card

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