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, HIS Radeon X800 GTO was 10.62% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 10.62% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 15.77% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 38.67% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 42.51% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 149.51% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 205.95% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

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

HIS Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 24.38% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 22.57% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 22.05% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 22.05% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 21.14% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E, which was 9.60% faster, GeCube Radeon X800 GTO, which was 8.69% faster and nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 7.26% faster.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X800 GTO was 16.00% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 17.74% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 23.27% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 47.72% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 50.55% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 181.12% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 244.38% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 65.88% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 64.25% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 64.07% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 58.80% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 46.64% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E, which was 39.02% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 37.57% faster, GeCube Radeon X800 GTO, which was 13.43% faster and XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 8.71% faster.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X800 GTO was 22.33% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 22.71% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 23.49% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 46.79% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 52.55% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 196.95% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 266.98% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 111.05% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 107.71% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 99.23% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 95.89% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 65.55% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 62.21% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E, which was 60.41% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 17.99% faster and GeCube Radeon X800 GTO, which was 15.42% faster.

At a resolution of 1024x768 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X800 GTO was 4.24% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 11.65% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 12.67% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 20.98% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 46.43% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 51.54% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 165.47% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 222.27% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 29.13% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 27.91% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 27.10% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 26.83% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 24.93% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E, which was 13.28% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 10.70% faster and GeCube Radeon X800 GTO, which was 8.67% faster.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X800 GTO was 16.63% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 18.47% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 26.14% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 52.91% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 57.49% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 185.87% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 250.67% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 71.48% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 70.15% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 68.63% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 64.83% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 48.67% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E, which was 41.44% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 37.64% faster, GeCube Radeon X800 GTO, which was 14.07% faster and XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 5.51% faster.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X800 GTO was 22.40% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 23.61% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 24.01% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 50.80% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 56.43% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 225.00% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 266.02% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X800 GTO was beaten by XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 114.32% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 111.94% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 101.06% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 99.47% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 62.86% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 62.07% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E, which was 59.95% faster, GeCube Radeon X800 GTO, which was 15.38% faster and XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 15.12% faster.