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:

This chart could be just as well be used for an AMD 3500+ CPU review. The results of MSI NX6600GT are produced using the 3500+ where the ones of Asus 6600GT using a P4 3.0GHz. However the X700 is not bound by the CPU. It just lacks the sufficient power to render Doom 3.

With AA set to 4x and AF to 8x, the GPUs take over and the results are much clearer. Again the AGP version of 6600GT by MSI comes second in performance but 40fps with all the quality settings on at 1024x768 is just a great result anyway.