Since the majority of today's applications and games are compatible with DirectX 9, the need of benchmark applications that use DX 9 has been brought up. The benchmark uses the 3D engine (Krass engine) of the Aquanox game.

Aquamark Triscore

The Aquamark Triscore comprises 3 values: the overall system performance, the performance of the graphics system and the CPU performance. Keep in mind that this is not the total result of the tests, but the result of the whole benchmark process including all 9 chapters.

What can we say about this graph? We'll leave the comments up to you. All we can say is: nice!

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3DMark 2001

is the predecessor to 3DMark03. It's mainly a directx8.1 benchmark and the score depends a lot on the CPU power of your computer. However for reference use only we decided it'd be best to just leave it in our benchmark list so you can compare the next generation cards with the possibly outdated you have at home.

This does not make any sense. We could see on the screen when running the game tests, that the performance of the 6800GS XXX was lower than the other two cards, but the final score is higher. Maybe this is what happens when you mix old benchmarking software with brand new cards, or maybe this is a 3dMark bug. In any case, the final score does not represent the actual performance of the card.