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	14.29%
GeForce 9800 GX2	108	10.20%
GeForce GTX 260	106	8.16%
GeForce GTX 280	104	6.12%
Radeon HD 4870	104	6.12%
GeForce 9800 GTX+	104	6.12%
Radeon HD 4850 X2	98
Radeon HD 4850	96	2.08%
Radeon HD 4870 X2	96	2.08%
GeForce 9800 GT	95	3.16%
Radeon HD 4830	89	10.11%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	84	16.67%
Radeon HD 3870	83	18.07%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 1920x1200 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	108	11.34%
GeForce 9800 GX2	106	9.28%
GeForce GTX 260	103	6.19%
Radeon HD 4870	98	1.03%
Radeon HD 4850 X2	97
Radeon HD 4870 X2	95	2.11%
GeForce 9800 GTX+	94	3.19%
GeForce GTX 280	91	6.59%
Radeon HD 4850	89	8.99%
Radeon HD 4830	82	18.29%
GeForce 9800 GT	80	21.25%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	78	24.36%
Radeon HD 3870	75	29.33%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 2560x1600 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	92	3.37%
GeForce 9800 GX2	92	3.37%
Radeon HD 4870 X2	91	2.25%
Radeon HD 4850 X2	89
Radeon HD 4870	78	14.10%
GeForce GTX 260	76	17.11%
GeForce 9800 GTX+	63	41.27%
GeForce GTX 280	62	43.55%
Radeon HD 4850	60	48.33%
Radeon HD 4830	53	67.92%
GeForce 9800 GT	52	71.15%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	51	74.51%
Radeon HD 3870	47	89.36%