Codecreatures

Code Creatures is a synthetic 3D benchmark that is a good reference for VGA performance comparison. This is a high-end 3D benchmark that also requires DirectX 8 hardware, making a good tool for measuring the potential of DirectX 8 game performance.

The Codecreatures benchmark is written with Microsoft's DirectX 8.1 API and incorporates the use of Vertex and PixelShaders popular on next generation 3D accelerators.

The benchmark plays a photo-realistic nature scene and calculates the performance of the graphics adapter by measuring the fps that it can display at 1024x768, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 resolutions. The score is a geometric mean of those three resolutions called the Codecreatures number.

For this Benchmark I grabbed average FPS results in the following resolutions: 1024x768, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200.

In this benchmark the situation changes, having this time the 6800 Ultra monster behind Asus' X800 XT.

- Codecreatures number

The codecreatures number is the resulting score of the total benchmarking process which includes some other measures except from a plain sum up of the fps results. Codecreatures indicate that Asus' AX X800 XT is better than Gainward's CoolFX 6800 Ultra for about 200 points.