ForceWare series 6 Driver Performance Comparison

3DMark 2005 Business Edition
3DMark05 is concentrated on measuring the performance of the DirectX 9 generation of 3D hardware using the technology of next generation games. Earlier 3DMark versions have usually been launched with the introduction of a new Microsoft DirectX version and with the introduction of a new hardware generation. This has somewhat limited how much 3DMark has utilized the new hardware features. At the time of this writing, DirectX 9 was introduced close to two years ago, and there is now DX9 generation hardware available all the way from the very high end to value and mobile parts. 3DMark05 can thereby utilize the features of DirectX 9 to a 100%. In fact, DirectX 9 hardware is required for every game test of 3DMark05, resulting in the ultimate tool for DirectX 9 hardware performance comparison.

• Full control over the benchmark display configuration, including resolution, colour palette, anti-aliasing and texture filtering.
• Feature tests measuring shader performance, and other essential graphics performance features.
• Professional tools, including image quality analysis and graph creation of runtime statistics.
• Result import to MS Excel tool for easier result management and report creation.
• Access to the Pro-Online Result Browser, a must have for all professional system testers and enthusiast overclockers.

At the time 3DMark05 got release you'll see that performance got boosted likely due to optimizations. These optimizations were to be found legit by FutureMark and started at series 66.29 and upwards. Again we notice that 66.81 works out quite well.