Performance in First Person 3D Shooters

Doom 3

Being an AGP solution, the described card from Leadtek faces competition from the RADEON 9800 XT in the market, but the WinFast A6600 GT leaves no chance to this opponent in Doom 3 which generally runs faster on NVIDIA’s GeForce6 architecture. The Leadtek card makes resolutions up to and including 1280x1024 comfortably playable.

The card from Leadtek beats its opponent, the RADEON 9800 XT, with enabled full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering even despite its 128-bit memory bus. Yet, the speed of the WinFast A6600 GT hardly hits the 40 frames-per-second mark even in 1024x768.

It’s roughly the same on the d3dm4 map, but the absolute frame rates are higher here due to the lack of monsters. Resolutions up to 1280x1024 are playable on the WinFast A6600 GT, just as is necessary for today.

The Leadtek card feels upbeat even after we enable FSAA and anisotropic filtering, but we wouldn’t say there’s a comfortable frame rate in high resolutions. On the other hand, the RADEON 9800 XT can’t boast high performance in Doom 3, so there’s practically no competition here.