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 copliant hardware, making it 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 we offer the average FPS results of each card in the following resolutions: 1024x768, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200.

What we see here is proof that the latest generation VGA chipsets need very fast CPU's. The same fps the 6800 Ultra achieved shows that our test system's CPU (P4 2.4) holds it back from performing up to it's true capabilities. In the near future a new review with a faster CPU will be published analysing this issue in detail.

- Codecreatures number

The codecreatures number is the resulting score of the total benchmarking process.

Gainward's Ultra 6800 is on top again. But let's see the cards' performance with GLExcess OpenGL benchmark.