Unreal Tournament 3 is the latest installment from this famous first person shooter franchise, supporting DirectX 10 graphics when installed on Windows Vista with a DX10 compatible card. We upgraded Unreal Tournament 3 to version 1.2 and benchmarked it with the help of HOC UT3 benchmarking utility using the “Containment” demo, maxing out image quality settings (image quality at “high” and anisotropic filtering at x16). It is important to note that we haven’t applied the PhysX mod to this game, which would transfer PhysX processing from the CPU to the GPU on NVIDIA cards. The results are below, in frames per second (FPS).

Unreal Tournament 3 - 1680x1050 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	112	7.69%
GeForce 9800 GX2	108	3.85%
XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC)	108	3.85%
GeForce GTX 260	106	1.92%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870	104
GeForce GTX 280	104	0.00%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850	96	8.33%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	84	23.81%
Radeon HD 3870	83	25.30%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 1920x1200 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	108	10.20%
GeForce 9800 GX2	106	8.16%
XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC)	106	8.16%
GeForce GTX 260	103	5.10%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870	98
GeForce GTX 280	91	7.69%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850	89	10.11%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	78	25.64%
Radeon HD 3870	75	30.67%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 2560x1600 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	92	17.95%
GeForce 9800 GX2	92	17.95%
XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC)	85	8.97%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870	78
GeForce GTX 260	76	2.63%
GeForce GTX 280	62	25.81%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850	60	30.00%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	51	52.94%
Radeon HD 3870	47	65.96%