MSI NX 6800 Ultra
9. Doom 3
09 - 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:
The NX6800U performed 1-2 frames per second better than the Gainward GT. The X600XT isn't worth mentioning. As you can see, it couldn't even run the game satisfactorily at the 800x600 resolution.
Unfortunately, the fps didn't stay above 60fps at all resolutions but if the top card from NVIDIA could not succeed at doing this, then there's probably no card around presently capable of such a feat.