Doom 3 is one of the heaviest games available today. As we’ve done on other programs, we ran this game at three resolutions: 1024x768x32, 1280x1024x32 and 1600x1200x32. This game allows several image quality levels and we’ve done our benchmarking on two levels, low and high. We ran demo1 four times and wrote the obtained number of frames per second. The first result we discarded at once, since it is far inferior than the other results. This happens because at the first time we run the demo the game must load all textures to video memory, fact that doesn’t happen from the second time we run the demo on. From the three results left, we consider as our official result the middle result, i.e. we discard the highest and the lowest values. Curiously almost all times the values obtained at the second round on were the same.

A very important detail that we must mention is that Doom 3 has an internal FPS lock: it is only capable of generating 60 frames per second, even if your board is able to produce more frames per second than that. This is done in order to make the game to have the same "playability" sensation independently from the video card installed on the PC. This lock, however, is disabled in the game benchmarking mode.

For further details on how to measure 3D performance with Doom 3, read our tutorial on this subject.

At a resolution of 1024x768 without any image quality enhancement, GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was 8.69% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 10.41% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 20.23% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 20.23% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 25.83% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 50.72% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 54.90% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 171.20% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 232.54% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

GeCube Radeon X800 GTO achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E. and nVidia GeForce 6800 GT.

GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT,  which was 14.44% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 12.77% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT,  which was 12.29% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL,  which was 12.29% faster and XFX GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 11.46% faster.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 without any image quality enhancement, GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was 4.34% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 13.43% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 31.58% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 33.55% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 39.82% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 67.56% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 70.77% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 218.88% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 290.63% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT,  which was 46.24% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 44.80% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 44.64% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT,  which was 40.00% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL,  which was 29.28% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E.,  which was 22.56% faster and nVidia GeForce 6800 GT,  which was 21.28% faster.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 without any image quality enhancement, GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was 15.42% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 41.19% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 41.64% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 42.54% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 69.43% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 76.08% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 242.75% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 323.58% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

GeCube Radeon X800 GTO achieved a performance similar to XFX GeForce 6600 GT.

GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by XFX GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 82.85% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 79.96% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT,  which was 72.61% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT,  which was 69.71% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT,  which was 43.43% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL,  which was 40.53% faster and ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E.,  which was 38.98% faster.

At a resolution of 1024x768 enabling image quality enhancements, GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was 8.67% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 13.28% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 21.33% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 22.44% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 31.48% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 59.13% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 64.68% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 188.49% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 250.22% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

GeCube Radeon X800 GTO achieved a performance similar to nVidia GeForce 6800 GT.

GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT,  which was 18.83% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT,  which was 17.71% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 16.96% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 16.71% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL,  which was 14.96% faster and ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E.,  which was 4.24% faster.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 enabling image quality enhancements, GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was 8.11% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 14.07% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 33.04% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 35.14% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 43.88% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 74.42% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 79.64% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 226.09% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 300.00% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT,  which was 50.33% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 49.17% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 47.83% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT,  which was 44.50% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL,  which was 30.33% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E.,  which was 24.00% faster and nVidia GeForce 6800 GT,  which was 20.67% faster.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 enabling image quality enhancements, GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was 15.38% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 41.23% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 42.62% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 43.09% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 74.00% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 80.50% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 275.00% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 322.33% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

GeCube Radeon X800 GTO achieved a performance similar to XFX GeForce 6600 GT.

GeCube Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by XFX GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 85.75% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX,  which was 83.68% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT,  which was 74.25% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT,  which was 72.87% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL,  which was 41.15% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT,  which was 40.46% faster and ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E.,  which was 38.62% faster.