Doom 3

Doom 3 and The Chronicles of Riddick are two very similar applications from the technological point of view. Particularly, they both use OpenGL and stencil shadows, thus handicapping the Radeon X1000 architecture. And just like in The Chronicles of Riddick , there is almost no effect from overclocking the Radeon X1800 XT. The ASUS card can yield just a few extra fps in this game: the EAX1800XT TOP is nowhere ahead of the Radeon X1800 XT by more than 2-3fps. The absolute performance of the card is high, though. You will only find the resolution of 1600x1200 at the “eye candy” settings unplayable. If you do want to play the game at such settings, consider the GeForce 7800 GTX 512 which feels quiet at home under such conditions.