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Benchmarks at Guru3D.com

AquaMark 3The latest graphics cards on the market are all DirectX 9 compatible these days, and we also see an increasing number of games utilizing the new DX9 features. To be able to see how well a graphics cards is performing in this new challenging DirectX 9 environment, AquaMark was developed.

The AquaMark3 benchmark delivers scores for specific hardware components as well as an overall score for the entire system. AquaMark3 is highly qualified to meet the needs of gamers because it's as close as possible to a typical game application. The AquaMark benchmarking series is based directly on the huge code and data base of the AquaNox games and the underlying krass game engine."

In the past we have used AquaMark 2.3 in our benchmark suite and although still a reputable application, Massive figured it was time for the next best thing. This is AquaMark 3, a benchmark that will utilize some of the finest DirectX 9 capabilities like Pixel and Vertex Shaders 2.0, and yet is by far not as Shader dependant as, for example, Half-Life 2 is. You will notice this in the overall results later in this article.

AquaMark 3, however, is not solely a DirectX9 benchmark; if you are working with a DirectX 8 or 7 compatible graphics card, you will still be able to use it just with a lot of graphical features missing. Make no mistake, AquaMark3 is a DirectX 9 benchmark. But since it's based on a real game engine it has fallbacks to DirectX 8 and even DirectX 7 that makes this software not a 100% DX9 benchmark.

Download: Aquamark 3 (63 MB)

AquaMark 3 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
5750PCX 35 29 22 17
x600 37 31 24 19
6600 128 MB 43 37 28 22
6600 256 MB 46 40 31 25
X700 Pro 59 53 43 34
6600GT 128MB  59 55 47 39
x800XL 65 61 56 50
6800GT 65 62 57 52
x850XT Reference 69 67 62 57

AquaMark 3 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
6600GT 128MB 4xAA 8xAF 49 40 30 21
X700 Pro 4xAA 8xAF 49 40 30 24
6800GT 4xAA 8xAF 65 57 46 36
x800XL 4xAA 8xAF 60 56 49 41
x850XT Reference 4xAA 8xAF 65 62 56 49

The card of course dominates easily in the lower section of the high-end range and offers truly nice performance.

Splinter Cell Benchmarks at Guru3D.com

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