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 below are the average number of frames per second (FPS) achieved by each card.

Unreal Tournament 3 - 1680x1050 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	112	17.89%
GeForce 9800 GX2	108	13.68%
GeForce GTX 260	106	11.58%
GeForce GTX 280	104	9.47%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870	104	9.47%
GeForce 8800 GT	97	2.11%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850	96	1.05%
GeForce 9800 GT	95
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	84	13.10%
Radeon HD 3870	83	14.46%
GeForce 8800 GTS	80	18.75%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 1920x1200 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	108	35.00%
GeForce 9800 GX2	106	32.50%
GeForce GTX 260	103	28.75%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870	98	22.50%
GeForce GTX 280	91	13.75%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850	89	11.25%
GeForce 8800 GT	81	1.25%
GeForce 9800 GT	80
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	78	2.56%
Radeon HD 3870	75	6.67%
GeForce 8800 GTS	66	21.21%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 2560x1600 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	92	76.92%
GeForce 9800 GX2	92	76.92%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870	78	50.00%
GeForce GTX 260	76	46.15%
GeForce GTX 280	62	19.23%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850	60	15.38%
GeForce 8800 GT	53	1.92%
GeForce 9800 GT	52
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	51	1.96%
Radeon HD 3870	47	10.64%
GeForce 8800 GTS	41	26.83%