AOpen Aeolus FX 5900 XT review - Page 15 - Unreal 2003

The Unreal Tournament 2003 benchmark is much more modern than Quake III, this is not the Unreal 2003 performance test as used by some other websites; contrary to that, it's based on the demo.

Since the Unreal Tournament 2003 demo is finally out, and available for a free download. You can get it at just about any file download site (link). Be prepared to download 100MB of data though. 

One nice little addition to UT2003 demo is that it has a built-in benchmark utility.  You can find the benchmark in the system subdirectory for the game after it installs.  The file is appropriately named 'benchmark.exe'.  Run this file, select the resolution you want to benchmark, and it will go through 4 different demos, 2 are "flyby" and 2 are "botmatch" demos.  The flyby demos give you an idea of how high frame rates would be without bots, while the botmatch demos give you an idea of what kind of fps you can expect while actually playing the game. The benchmark actually leverages more cpu and graphics intensive technologies that the engine is capable of. To prevent manufacturer graphics driver cheating, we use our own internal timedemo though.

The 5900 XT again is very capable of handling a game of this caliber, and it's a rough one on the graphics core alright. The 5950 Ultra is again, on top. Even with quality settings AF and AA enabled we can still observe awesome numbers.

For the 5700 Ultra 10x7 is the maximum resolution to play the game with 4xAA and 8x AF where the 5900 XT could go one notch higher. Right enough benchmarks for a while, let's go to the conclusion. Follow me please :)