Aquamark 3 is a 3D benchmarking program based on the engine of Aquanox game, which is a very ”heavy“ game. It is based on DirectX 9 and we ran it on its default configuration. From the results presented, we analyzed one called TriScore. This program runs automatically at 1024x768x32.

Here, HIS Radeon X1600 Pro achieved a similar performance to HIS Radeon X700 and it was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, which was 71.38% faster, XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra, which was 65.38% faster, ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, which was 51.34% faster, Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro, which was 41.87% faster, Leadtek GeForce 6600 GT AGP, which was 35.87% faster, ATI Radeon 9800 XT, which was 22.10% faster and Gigabyte GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, which was 17.24% faster.