3DMark03 simulates DirectX 8 and 9 games. Even though this program may be considered “old”, we ran it to see how the tested video cards perform on older games. Since we are comparing high-end cards, we ran this program in higher resolutions, as performance difference between high-end video cards is more expressive on such resolutions. We chose three resolutions, 1600x1200, 1920x1440 and 2048x1536. At each resolution we simulated two scenarios, first with no image quality enhancements enabled (this scenario we called “low”) and then with anti-aliasing set at 4x and anisotropic filtering set at 16x (this scenario we called “high”). The results you check below. All video cards listed below were running with the default clock rates defined by the chip manufacturer.

 

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 1600x1200	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	22565	100.70%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	15392	36.90%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	14387	27.96%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	12020	6.91%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	11744	4.46%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	11243
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	10278	9.39%

 

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 1920x1440	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	18351	110.18%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	12081	38.37%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	11287	29.27%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	9437	8.09%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	9245	5.89%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	8731
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	8018	8.89%

 

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 2048x1536	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	16953	121.43%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	11327	47.95%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	10348	35.16%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	8386	9.54%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	7656
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	7272	5.28%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	7066	8.35%

 

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 1600x1200 AAx4, AFx16	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	13181	111.37%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	8637	38.50%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	7903	26.73%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	6634	6.38%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	6422	2.98%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	6236
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	5553	12.30%

 

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 1920x1440 AAx4, AFx16	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	10231	114.71%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	6535	37.15%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	6037	26.69%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	4765
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	4637	2.76%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	4467	6.67%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	3850	23.77%