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 X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 14.39% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 17.56% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 105.83% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 152.38% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 52.04% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 50.79% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 48.58% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 47.96% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 47.96% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 43.71% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 32.86% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 30.03% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 21.23% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 19.34% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 9.59% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 7.86% faster and ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 4.72% faster.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 17.69% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 19.95% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 123.98% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 174.38% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

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

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 113.90% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 108.20% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 105.92% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 99.32% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 84.05% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 76.54% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 74.49% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 72.67% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 36.45% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 25.51% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 14.58% faster and HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 6.61% faster.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 18.11% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 22.75% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 138.93% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 195.28% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1600 XT and HIS Radeon X800 GT.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 176.68% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 158.15% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 147.60% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 143.45% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 105.75% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 102.56% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 101.60% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 99.36% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 46.65% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 24.28% faster and XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 17.57% faster.

At a resolution of 1024x768 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 16.27% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 20.33% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 110.79% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 155.90% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 62.63% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 61.09% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 59.73% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 57.34% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 56.66% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 51.54% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 42.66% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 39.42% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 25.94% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 20.82% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 11.77% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 11.60% faster and ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 4.10% faster.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 17.15% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 20.66% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 119.02% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 168.67% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 135.24% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 123.82% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 120.10% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 115.14% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 94.04% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 84.62% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 83.37% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 79.65% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 37.72% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 30.52% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 18.11% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 10.17% faster and ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 3.47% faster.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was 19.60% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 24.07% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 157.76% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 190.29% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) achieved a performance similar to HIS Radeon X800 GT and ATI Radeon X1600 XT.

HIS Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (which is factory-overclocked) was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 195.65% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 167.22% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 153.51% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 151.51% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 105.35% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 104.35% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 102.68% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 101.67% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 45.15% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 26.09% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 18.06% faster.