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Doom 3

A massive demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's (UAC) Mars Research Facility leaving only chaos and horror in its wake. As one of the few survivors, you struggle with shock and fear as you fight your way to Hell and back, in an epic clash against pure evil.

Activision made it's miracle again with Doom 3 which is said to be the best-looking game ever, thanks to the brand-new OpenGL graphics engine used to generate its convincingly lifelike, densely atmospheric, and surprisingly expansive environments. If you are a fan of the previous Doom games then you will get many flashbacks with this revision, since you will find reimagined versions of almost every monster from both Doom and Doom II.

To measure performance on the game we used the timedemo demo1 command from the console (Alt+Ctrl+~).
Enabling the high quality setting and executing the timedemo demo1 command twice for each resolution, we witnessed the following:

First without the Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering settings enabled, we had the following results:

Since most NVidia based graphics cards do not have any problems with Doom3, the two 6600GT GPUs managed for all resolutions, fps values that lay between the single 6600GT and the 6800Ultra. Despit the fact that the MSI card could not be outperformed at any point, the results were nonetheless rather good.

Multi-GPU performance is reduced with advanced quality settings, and as before, the Multi-GPU architecture cannot deliver better results than the 6800Ultra, although it did report decent results.