HIS X700 Pro IceQ TURBO
5. 3DMark 2003
05 - 3DMark 2003
3D Mark is a widely used and accepted benchmark that stresses the DirectX performance of a VGA card. A very strong point of 3DMark is that its VGA card measuring does not require any CPU power. So the resulting fps are a good reference of a VGA card's rendering performance. For testing the performance of each card, we used the 4 game benchmarks from 3DMark.
3Dmark03 also includes sound and CPU tests as well as some other feature tests.
- Game Test 1 - Wings of Fury (DX7)
This test is a combat flight simulator written for older hardware (DirectX 7). Particles are used a lot in this test - smoke and vapor trails, flak and gunfire, and explosions are produced using point sprites and quads.
- Game Test 2 - Battle of Proxycon (DX8)
This test is a simulation of a first person shooter game. 1.1 and 1.4 Vertex shaders are widely used since all character models are skinned using vertex shaders.This makes this test a good vertex shader comparison for VGA cards.
- Game Test 3 - Trolls' Lair (DX8)
This test should be the favorite of all RPG lovers. It is a cut scene of a female warrior facing two malicious trolls. Again, the same vertex and pixel processing is used as in game test 2.
This test also uses post-processing effects, such as Depth of Field and Bloom effects which are widely used in today's game cut scene sequences.
- Game Test 4 - Mother Nature (DX9)
Mother nature represents the level of effects and realism that are possible using 2.0 vertex and pixel shaders, plus some other features that DirectX 9 offers.
We believe the 3DMark03 test accurately reflects the current games' performance with the cards. The X700 Pro seems to generate satisfactory framerates in the DX8, DX9 game tests, with the average fps being above 40. Of course, the X800XT PE once again distinguishes itself by offering twice the performance on all tests except for GT1, which by the way, time has proven it to be obsolete anyway.
- 3DMark Official score
If you test your machine with 3DMark, you can post the results at 3DMark's online results page. For more information visit futuremark.com.
Yes, the rumors were true after all. The X700 Pro beats all previous generation graphics cards which still cost around $300 and couldn't do any better than 6500 3dmarks at regular clock speeds. The Pro version of the X700, at the affordable price of $200, brings better performance for much less money.
