3DMark03 measures performance by simulating games written to DirectX 9, which are contemporary games. 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 note 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 bechmarks, allowing direct comparison between them.

At a resolution of 1024x768 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X700 achieved a performance similar to Gigabyte GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, and it was beaten by XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra, which was 103.07% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, which was 101.58% faster, ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, which was 98.58% faster, Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro, which was 65.33% faster, Leadtek GeForce 6600 GT AGP, which was 25.16% faster and ATI Radeon 9800 XT, which was 8.63% faster.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X700 was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, which was 127.58% faster, XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra, which was 123.49% faster, ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, which was 121.06% faster, Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro, which was 77.75% faster, Leadtek GeForce 6600 GT AGP, which was 30.03% faster, ATI Radeon 9800 XT, which was 12.85% faster and Gigabyte GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, which was 7.54% faster.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X700 was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, which was 161.92% faster, XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra, which was 152.87% faster, ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, which was 149.51% faster, Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro, which was 99.72% faster, Leadtek GeForce 6600 GT AGP, which was 39.87% faster, ATI Radeon 9800 XT, which was 19.10% faster and Gigabyte GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, which was 16.82% faster.

At a resolution of 1024x768 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X700 was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, which was 170.70% faster, XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra, which was 154.90% faster, ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, which was 146.46% faster, Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro, which was 98.71% faster, Leadtek GeForce 6600 GT AGP, which was 38.39% faster, ATI Radeon 9800 XT, which was 30.89% faster and Gigabyte GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, which was 16.24% faster.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X700 was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, which was 311.87% faster, XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra, which was 186.66% faster, ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, which was 182.72% faster, Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro, which was 120.82% faster, ATI Radeon 9800 XT, which was 43.30% faster, Leadtek GeForce 6600 GT AGP, which was 39.72% faster and Gigabyte GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, which was 25.82% faster.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X700 was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, which was 259.53% faster, XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra, which was 217.83% faster, ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, which was 212.87% faster, Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro, which was 144.00% faster, ATI Radeon 9800 XT, which was 53.06% faster, Leadtek GeForce 6600 GT AGP, which was 39.18% faster and Gigabyte GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, which was 37.02% faster.