Performance in First Person 3D Shooters

Doom III

The ASUS N6600 GT/TD is on the same level with the RADEON X800 PRO because Doom III prefers NVIDIA’s GeForce6 GPUs due to some of their specific functions. Besides, this is an OpenGL game and NVIDIA’s driver for this API has always been the best.

In the “eye candy?mode, i.e. with enabled full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, the RADEON X800 PRO outperforms the ASUS card in 1024x768. Then the gap gets smaller in higher resolutions, despite the 128-bit memory bus of the N6600 GT/TD.

It’s generally all the same on the d3dm4 map as on Hellhole. The N6600 GT/TD rivals the RADEON X800 PRO and leaves the RADEON 9800 XT far behind.

Here, the ASUS card cannot keep up the pace of the RADEON X800 PRO, but it anyway outperforms the RADEON 9800 XT easily, even though providing a comfortable frame rate in 1024x768 resolution only.