Semi-synthetic Benchmarks

Aquamark3

Aquamark3 doesn’t have complex textures but loads the GPU with complex geometry instead, so large amounts of graphics memory mean nothing in this benchmark.

We can’t see any positive impact of the larger memory amount of the new RADEON X800 XL even when we enable 4x full-screen antialiasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. It is slower than the RADEON X850 XT and XT Platinum Edition, like in most other tests.

The same is true for the “extreme” mode with full-screen antialiasing of the maximum level.