CodeCreatures 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 hardware, making 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.

Codecreatures run smoothly under 1024x768 and 1280x1024 using Powercolor's X600 XT where X300 could not yield satisfying results.

-Codecreatures number

The codecreatures number is the resulting score of the total benchmarking process which includes some other measures except from a plain sum up of the fps results.

2430 codecreature points indicate the average 24 fps we got in this benchmark. Surely it's not enough considering the cost of the card but we can't say we're satisfied.