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, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX was 5.80% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, 14.44% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 16.93% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, 25.42% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 27.40% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 38.74% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 40.96% faster than factory-overclocked GeForce 6600 256 MB from XFX, 45.20% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 46.29% faster than HIS Radeon X1600 XT, 73.92% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 78.74% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 212.94% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 283.73% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

ATI Radeon X1900 XTX achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1800 XT, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, ATI Radeon X1800 XL and nVidia GeForce 7800 GT.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 without any image quality enhancement, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX was 3.87% faster than MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, 7.31% faster than nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, 16.21% faster than ATI Radeon X1800 XL, 21.16% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, 22.58% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 23.88% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, 56.76% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 70.42% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 86.68% faster than factory-overclocked GeForce 6600 256 MB from XFX, 100.64% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 110.07% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 111.96% faster than HIS Radeon X1600 XT, 151.74% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 156.56% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 379.08% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 486.88% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

ATI Radeon X1900 XTX achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1800 XT.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 without any image quality enhancement, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX was 7.18% faster than MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, 11.74% faster than ATI Radeon X1800 XT, 13.65% faster than nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, 34.47% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, 36.59% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, 37.24% faster than ATI Radeon X1800 XL, 38.78% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 88.67% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 122.62% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 135.33% faster than factory-overclocked GeForce 6600 256 MB from XFX, 173.19% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 174.92% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 176.68% faster than HIS Radeon X1600 XT, 226.79% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 239.61% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 561.07% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 716.98% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

At a resolution of 1024x768 enabling image quality enhancements, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX was 3.38% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, 9.81% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 12.36% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, 24.39% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 29.66% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 40.15% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 40.37% faster than factory-overclocked GeForce 6600 256 MB from XFX, 50.49% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 51.99% faster than HIS Radeon X1600 XT, 82.14% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 88.50% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 230.22% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 300.87% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

ATI Radeon X1900 XTX achieved a performance similar to nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX and ATI Radeon X1800 XL.

ATI Radeon X1900 XTX was beaten only by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 3,81% faster.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 enabling image quality enhancements, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX was 5.10% faster than ATI Radeon X1800 XT, 6.88% faster than MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, 9.34% faster than nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, 21.23% faster than ATI Radeon X1800 XL, 27.42% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 28.28% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, 30.94% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, 70.81% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 80.23% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 99.16% faster than factory-overclocked GeForce 6600 256 MB from XFX, 113.51% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 127.34% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 130.10% faster than HIS Radeon X1600 XT, 175.58% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 183.83% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 415.22% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 532.00% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 enabling image quality enhancements, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX was 10.64% faster than MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, 16.62% faster than ATI Radeon X1800 XT, 17.55% faster than nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, 43.97% faster than ATI Radeon X1800 XL, 44.68% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, 45.87% faster than nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, 46.60% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 103.69% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 134.48% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GTO, 150.42% faster than factory-overclocked GeForce 6600 256 MB from XFX, 189.84% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 190.79% faster than ATI Radeon X1600 XT, 194.67% faster than HIS Radeon X1600 XT, 253.60% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 266.80% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 662.07% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 758,25% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.