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
Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD)	23150
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	22565	2.59%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	15392	50.40%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	14387	60.91%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	12020	92.60%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	11744	97.12%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	11243	105.91%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	10278	125.24%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1920x1440	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	18351	3.75%
Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD)	17687
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	12081	46.40%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	11287	56.70%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	9437	87.42%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	9245	91.31%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	8731	102.58%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	8018	120.59%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 2048x1536	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	16953	4.47%
Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD)	16228
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	11327	43.27%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	10348	56.82%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	8386	93.51%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	7656	111.96%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	7272	123.16%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	7066	129.66%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 1600x1200 AAx4, AFx16	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	13181	29.25%
Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD)	10198
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	8637	18.07%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	7903	29.04%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	6634	53.72%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	6422	58.80%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	6236	63.53%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	5553	83.65%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 1920x1440 AAx4, AFx16	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	10231	30.95%
Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD)	7813
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	6535	19.56%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	6037	29.42%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	4765	63.97%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	4637	68.49%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	4467	74.90%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	3850	102.94%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 2048x1536 AAx4, AFx16	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	9235	29.91%
Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD)	7109
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	5494	29.40%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	5409	31.43%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	4187	69.79%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	4091	73.77%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	4030	76.40%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	3470	104.87%