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 3DMark 2003 Professional
imageview.php?image=121The latest in the 3DMark benchmark series built by Futuremark Corporation (formerly known as MadOnion.com). More than 5 million benchmark results have been submitted to Futuremarks Online ResultBrowser database. It has become a point of great prestige to be the holder of the highest 3DMark score. A compelling, easy-to-use interface has made 3DMark very popular among game enthusiasts. Futuremarks latest benchmark, 3DMark03, continues this tradition by providing a Microsoft DirectX 9 benchmark.

The introduction of DirectX 9 and new hardware shader technologies put a lot of power in the hands of game developers. Increasingly realistic 3D games will be available over the next year and a half. The use of 3D graphics will become more accessible to other applications areas and even operating systems. In this new environment, 3DMark03 will serve as a tool for benchmarking 3D graphics.

This benchmark is not based on any game. Please remember this, never buy a graphics card based solely on the 3DMark score. I'm not bashing the 3D Mark suite here, it's good software but definitely not the sole basis for you to make an informed decision on to buy a graphics card. Especially after what happened in 2003.

For the sake of it I'm including a few scores.

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5950U 6406 2970 2167 1657
6800U 11526 6556 4974 3851

Well you have to admit, the importance of these results can be discussed, yet it surely does look yummie.

3DMark Score 11526 3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury 254.9 FPS
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 95.0 FPS
GT3 - Troll's Lair 78.3 FPS
GT4 - Mother Nature 63.6 FPS
CPU Score 746 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1 81.1 FPS
CPU Test 2 13.6 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 3197.6 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 6048.7 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader 28.9 FPS
Pixel Shader 2.0 155.2 FPS
Ragtroll 50.9 FPS

NVIDIA takes back the performance crown in 3DMark 03 for sure, however this number says absolutely nothing anymore I'm afraid. We posted them as you would otherwise request from us the results by email; and basically because you want to see them so we post them. Do as you see fit with the results though.

 3DMark 2003

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