08 - Doom 3

A massive demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporations’ (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:

Most ATi cards have difficulties rendering Doom 3. Nvidia was always aware of this and advertised the 6600GT as the perfect card for that particular game. We're really happy to find out that it wasn't just another management trick. The 6600GT is indeed an excellent card for Doom3. Nothing could hold it back and we were encouraged to increase the quality settings.

With AA set to 4x and AF to 8x, the 6600GT offers approximately twice the performance of the X700 pro. Even at 1280x1024 it yields an average fps above 25.