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 - 1920x1200 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	108	13.68%
GeForce 9800 GX2	106	11.58%
GeForce GTX 260	103	8.42%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870	98	3.16%
Radeon HD 4870 X2	95
GeForce 9800 GTX+	94	1.06%
GeForce GTX 280	91	4.40%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850	89	6.74%
GeForce 9800 GT	80	18.75%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	78	21.79%
Radeon HD 3870	75	26.67%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 2560x1600 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	92	1.10%
GeForce 9800 GX2	92	1.10%
Radeon HD 4870 X2	91
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870	78	16.67%
GeForce GTX 260	76	19.74%
GeForce 9800 GTX+	63	44.44%
GeForce GTX 280	62	46.77%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850	60	51.67%
GeForce 9800 GT	52	75.00%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	51	78.43%
Radeon HD 3870	47	93.62%