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, except MSI GeForce 8800 GTS “OC”, which is the reviewed model with its default overclocked settings.

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 1600x1200	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	22565	32.56%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC	17022
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	15392	10.59%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	14387	18.32%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	12020	41.61%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	11744	44.94%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	11243	51.40%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	10278	65.62%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 1920x1440	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	18351	37.86%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC	13311
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	12081	10.18%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	11287	17.93%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	9437	41.05%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	9245	43.98%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	8731	52.46%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	8018	66.01%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 2048x1536	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	16953	35.68%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC	12495
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	11327	10.31%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	10348	20.75%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	8386	49.00%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	7656	63.21%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	7272	71.82%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	7066	76.83%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 1600x1200 AAx4, AFx16	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	13181	39.99%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC	9416
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	8637	9.02%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	7903	19.14%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	6634	41.94%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	6422	46.62%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	6236	50.99%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	5553	69.57%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 1920x1440 AAx4, AFx16	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	10231	37.66%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC	7432
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	6535	13.73%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	6037	23.11%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	4765	55.97%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	4637	60.28%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	4467	66.38%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	3850	93.04%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 2048x1536 AAx4, AFx16	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	9235	53.94%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC	5999
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	5494	9.19%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	5409	10.91%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	4187	43.28%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	4091	46.64%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	4030	48.86%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	3470	72.88%