Performance 3DMark 2003 Professional

3DMark 03The latest in the 3DMark benchmark series built by Futuremark® Corporation (formerly known as MadOnion.com). The name 3DMark has become a standard in 3D graphics benchmarking; it has grown to be used by virtually all on-line and paper publications. It has proven itself as an impartial and highly accurate tool for benchmarking 3D graphics performance of the latest PC hardware. 3DMark has a very large following worldwide among individual PC owners. 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 state-of-the-art 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 dependable tool for benchmarking 3D graphics.

• Radeon 9500 Pro - Athlon XP 1800+ - 512Mb DDR266 score: 2329
• Radeon 9700 Pro - Athlon XP 2000+ - 512 MB DDR333 score: 4213
• GeForce 4 Ti 4600 - Pentium 4 2.4 GHz - 512 MB DDR400 score: 1659
  

As you might or might not know, 3D Mark 03 is under a lot of critisism right now. Some of that is correct some of it not.  3D Mark 03 is testing and scoring in a weird way. In our next review we'll go into this deeper. 3D Mark 03 is not a game people, so don't treat it as such, that end-number does not say too much especially in version 03. As you can see not very much to show off here. This benchmark is so young that we hardly had time to test anything with it.