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	56.84%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	15392	6.99%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	14387
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	12020	19.69%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	11744	22.51%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	11243	27.96%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	10278	39.98%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 1920x1440	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	18351	62.59%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	12081	7.03%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	11287
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	9437	19.60%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	9245	22.09%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	8731	29.27%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	8018	40.77%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 2048x1536	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	16953	63.83%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	11327	9.46%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	10348
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	8386	23.40%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	7656	35.16%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	7272	42.30%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	7066	46.45%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 1600x1200 - AAx4, AFx16	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	13181	66.78%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	8637	9.29%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	7903
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	6634	19.13%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	6422	23.06%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	6236	26.73%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	5553	42.32%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 1920x1440 - AAx4, AFx16	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	10231	69.47%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	6535	8.25%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	6037
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	4765	26.69%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	4637	30.19%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	4467	35.15%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	3850	56.81%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 2048x1536 - AAx4, AFx16	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	9235	70.73%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	5494	1.57%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	5409
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	4187	29.19%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	4091	32.22%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	4030	34.22%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	3470	55.88%