Page 14 - Unreal 2003

Unreal 2003The Unreal Tournament 2003 benchmark is much more modern than Quake III, this is not the Unreal 2003 performance test used by some other websites; contrary to that, it's based on the demo. The Unreal Tournament 2003 demo has been available as a free download for some time. 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 the 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 of the CPU and graphics intensive technologies that the engine is capable of. To prevent manufacturer graphics driver cheating, we use our own internal timedemo though.

Not bad at all ... 16x12 is very playable.

The XT is playable with extra eye-candy up to 12x10. Right, enough benchmarks for a while, let's wrap things up. Onwards to the conclusion.