Testbed and Methods

We used our traditional set of games and benchmarks to measure the performance of Leadtek’s new graphics card.

First Person 3D Shooters:

• Doom III;
• Call of Duty;
• Unreal Tournament 2004;
• Far Cry;
• Halo: Combat Evolved;
• Painkiller;
• FireStarter;
• Highly Anticipated DirectX 9 Game 1;
• Highly Anticipated DirectX 9 Game 2.

Third Person 3D Shooters:

• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic;
• Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow;
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time;
• Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne.

Simulators:

• IL-2 Sturmovik: Aces in the Sky;
• Lock On;
• Colin McRae Rally 04.

Strategy:

• Perimeter

Semi-synthetic benchmarks:

• Aquamark3.

Synthetic benchmarks:

• Futuremark 3DMark03 build 340.

As always, we chose the maximum graphics quality settings in each game. The testbed configuration remained the same:

• Athlon 64 3400+ CPU (2.20GHz, 1MB L1 cache);
• ASUS K8V Deluxe mainboard;
• OCZ PC-3200 Platinum EB DDR SDRAM (2x512MB, CL2.5-3-2-8);
• Seagate 7200.7 HDD (SerialATA-150, 8MB buffer);
• Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 sound card;
• Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP1, DirectX 9.0b;
• ATI Catalyst 4.6 (version 4.7 for Far Cry), NVIDIA ForceWare 61.34 (version 60.72 for 3DMark03).