Performance - Unreal 2003

Unreal 2003The 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.

Let's look at the FlyBy results:

As you can see faster than the GeForce FX in lower resolutions and a tad slower in the highest. The cards are very competitive towards each other. Also in the table are the results with Anisotropic filtering and Anti aliasing in 4xAA and 8xAF. Very .. very impressive results. The radeon r3xx core/series are extremely efficient with optimisations like these.

If you want to look and compare more AA or AF results, we did them all in our reference Radeon 9800 Pro review and they only differ something like ~1% compared to any Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card. You can check and compare them in that article. We will not do multiple AA and AF tests in all articles as we'd have to do over 500 benchmark test.

Let's look at the botmatch results: