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 mid-range cards, we decided to run this program in two resolutions, 1024x768 (which is considered low for today’s standards and thus providing a simulation for low resolution) and 1600x1200 (which provides a simulation for high resolution). 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 4x (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 the cards marked with “OC”, which are cards that are factory-overclocked.

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 –1024x768	Score	Difference
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC	20100	147.42%
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI)	18236	124.47%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC	17211	111.85%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI)	15741	93.76%
GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX)	14487	78.32%
Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS)	13663	68.18%
Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS)	10574	30.16%
Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS)	10271	26.43%
GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (nVidia)	9557	17.64%
GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX)	8984	10.59%
Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS)	8935	9.98%
GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI)	8124
GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis)	7359	10.40%
Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI)	6385	27.24%
GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron)	5593	45.25%
GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek)	4179	94.40%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1600x1200	Score	Difference
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC	11393	164.15%
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI)	10538	144.33%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC	9695	124.79%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI)	8797	103.96%
GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX)	8450	95.92%
Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS)	7556	75.19%
Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS)	5429	25.88%
Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS)	5385	24.86%
GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (nVidia)	5255	21.84%
GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX)	5086	17.92%
Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS)	4497	4.27%
GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI)	4313
GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis)	4011	7.53%
GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron)	2915	47.96%
Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI)	2712	59.03%
GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek)	2076	107.76%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1024x768 AAx4. AFx4	Score	Difference
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC	11675	139.59%
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI)	10742	120.44%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC	10131	107.90%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI)	9119	87.13%
GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX)	7980	63.76%
Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS)	7602	56.00%
Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS)	5592	14.75%
Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS)	5396	10.73%
GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI)	4873
GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (nVidia)	4844	0.60%
GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX)	4635	5.13%
Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS)	4605	5.82%
GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis)	3894	25.14%
Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI)	3376	44.34%
GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron)	2617	86.21%
GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek)	1745	179.26%

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1600x1200 AAx4. AFx4	Score	Difference
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC	6058	180.20%
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI)	5612	159.57%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC	5259	143.25%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI)	4639	114.57%
GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX)	4276	97.78%
Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS)	4110	90.10%
Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS)	2714	25.53%
Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS)	2691	24.47%
GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX)	2320	7.31%
GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (nVidia)	2237	3.47%
Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS)	2217	2.54%
GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI)	2162
GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis)	1917	12.78%
GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron)	1212	78.38%
Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI)	1038	108.29%
GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek)	837	158.30%