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	3.70%
GeForce 9800 GX2	108	0.00%
XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC)	108
GeForce GTX 260	106	1.89%
GeForce GTX 280	104	3.85%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870	104	3.85%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850	96	12.50%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	84	28.57%
Radeon HD 3870	83	30.12%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 1920x1200 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	108	1.89%
GeForce 9800 GX2	106	0.00%
XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC)	106
GeForce GTX 260	103	2.91%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870	98	8.16%
GeForce GTX 280	91	16.48%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850	89	19.10%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	78	35.90%
Radeon HD 3870	75	41.33%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 2560x1600 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	92	8.24%
GeForce 9800 GX2	92	8.24%
XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC)	85
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870	78	8.97%
GeForce GTX 260	76	11.84%
GeForce GTX 280	62	37.10%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850	60	41.67%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	51	66.67%
Radeon HD 3870	47	80.85%