3DMark05 measures performance by simulating DirectX 9.0c games, i.e. using the new Shader 3.0 model. This programming model is used by Far Cry game and other games to be launched in the future. This new programming model is used by GeForce 6 and 7 series from nVidia and Radeon X1000 series from ATI.

We run this program in three resolutions, 1024x768x32, 1280x1024x32 and 1600x1200x32, first without antialiasing and anisotropic filtering, and then configuring antialising at 4x and anisotropic filtering also at 4x. This improves the video quality but lowers the performance. We were willing to see how much performance we lost by putting the VGA to run at the maximum possible image quality. It is important to notice that ATI chips can run at 6x antialiasing. Since nVidia chips cannot run at this configuration, we had to use 4x antialiasing to use a configuration that is valid to all video cards included in our benchmarks, allowing direct comparison between them.

At a resolution of 1024x768 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 6.14% faster than HIS Radeon X800 GT, 46.85% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 47.56% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 61.14% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 149.15% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 195.74% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 210.48% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) achieved a performance similar to HIS Radeon X800 GTO.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 70.41% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 64.75% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 60.19% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 52.69% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 49.67% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 35.25% faster, ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 17.77% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 16.59% faster and nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 7.06% faster.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 36.44% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 46.31% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 57.08% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 144.16% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 195.58% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro and 209.88% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 117.92% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 112.56% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 97.36% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 80.68% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 79.05% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 54.20% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 34.35% faster, ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 32.89% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 21.83% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 13.18% faster and HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 3.84% faster.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 15.26% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 18.10% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 63.13% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 118.43% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 153.32% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro and 191.24% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 215.86% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 184.29% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 160.48% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 132.10% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 132.06% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 90.64% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 67.56% faster, ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 63.72% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 49.90% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 38.51% faster and HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 17.85% faster.

At a resolution of 1024x768 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 10.22% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 19.77% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 91.14% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 136.99% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro, 163.10% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600 and 172.43% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 175.93% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 173.05% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 146.02% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 138.78% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 125.98% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 102.07% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 66.99% faster, ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 65.53% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 50.41% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 48.58% faster and HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 43.21% faster.

To run at 1280x1024 enabling image quality enhancements on 3DMark05 the video card must have at least 256 MB of memory, because of that some video cards couldn’t run this test. Here HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 4.30% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 11.62% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 123.66% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro and 209.12% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 265.87% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 236.30% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 188.75% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 173.66% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 159.69% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 124.28% faster, ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 83.46% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 82.96% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 65.31% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 60.97% faster and HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 39.76% faster,

To run at 1600x1200 enabling image quality enhancements on 3DMark05 the video card must have at least 256 MB of memory, because of that some video cards couldn’t run this test. Here HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 67.74% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro and 189.74% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 532.89% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 435.22% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 325.61% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 321.86% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 279.15% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 236.54% faster, ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 167.61% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 139.37% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 126.21% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 126.01% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 97.17% faster, Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, which was 39.07% faster and XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 27.43% faster.