Performance in Semi-Synthetic Benchmarks

Aquamark3

We can’t see anything particularly interesting in Aquamark3 mainly because of the respectable age of the benchmark itself. We can see, however, that the GeForce 7900 GT and GeForce 7900 GTX are equals in this test at first, but then there’s a bigger gap between them in the 8x and 16x SLI AA modes. It’s also clear that the GeForce 7900 GT SLI cannot contend with the Radeon X1800 XT in these modes: in the first case due to its lower-performing memory subsystem (a lower frequency and a less efficient controller), and due to the sheer difficulty of performing 16x FSAA in the second case.