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	25.84%
GeForce 9800 GX2	108	21.35%
GeForce GTX 260	106	19.10%
GeForce GTX 280	104	16.85%
Radeon HD 4870	104	16.85%
GeForce 9800 GTX+	104	16.85%
Radeon HD 4850	96	7.87%
Radeon HD 4870 X2	96	7.87%
GeForce 9800 GT	95	6.74%
Radeon HD 4830	89
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	84	5.95%
Radeon HD 3870	83	7.23%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 1920x1200 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	108	31.71%
GeForce 9800 GX2	106	29.27%
GeForce GTX 260	103	25.61%
Radeon HD 4870	98	19.51%
Radeon HD 4870 X2	95	15.85%
GeForce 9800 GTX+	94	14.63%
GeForce GTX 280	91	10.98%
Radeon HD 4850	89	8.54%
Radeon HD 4830	82
GeForce 9800 GT	80	2.50%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	78	5.13%
Radeon HD 3870	75	9.33%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 2560x1600 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	92	73.58%
GeForce 9800 GX2	92	73.58%
Radeon HD 4870 X2	91	71.70%
Radeon HD 4870	78	47.17%
GeForce GTX 260	76	43.40%
GeForce 9800 GTX+	63	18.87%
GeForce GTX 280	62	16.98%
Radeon HD 4850	60	13.21%
Radeon HD 4830	53
GeForce 9800 GT	52	1.92%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	51	3.92%
Radeon HD 3870	47	12.77%