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	2.75%
GeForce GTX 260 (216 Proc.)	109
GeForce 9800 GX2	108	0.93%
GeForce GTX 260 (192 Proc.)	106	2.83%
GeForce GTX 280	104	4.81%
Radeon HD 4870	104	4.81%
GeForce 9800 GTX+	104	4.81%
Radeon HD 4850 X2	98	11.22%
Radeon HD 4850	96	13.54%
Radeon HD 4870 X2	96	13.54%
GeForce 9800 GT	95	14.74%
Radeon HD 4830	89	22.47%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	84	29.76%
Radeon HD 3870	83	31.33%

Unreal Tournament 3 - 1920x1200 - Maximum	Score	Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX	108	1.89%
GeForce GTX 260 (216 Proc.)	106
GeForce 9800 GX2	106	0.00%
GeForce GTX 260 (192 Proc.)	103	2.91%
Radeon HD 4870	98	8.16%
Radeon HD 4850 X2	97	9.28%
Radeon HD 4870 X2	95	11.58%
GeForce 9800 GTX+	94	12.77%
GeForce GTX 280	91	16.48%
Radeon HD 4850	89	19.10%
Radeon HD 4830	82	29.27%
GeForce 9800 GT	80	32.50%
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	13.58%
GeForce 9800 GX2	92	13.58%
Radeon HD 4870 X2	91	12.35%
Radeon HD 4850 X2	89	9.88%
GeForce GTX 260 (216 Proc.)	81
Radeon HD 4870	78	3.85%
GeForce GTX 260 (192 Proc.)	76	6.58%
GeForce 9800 GTX+	63	28.57%
GeForce GTX 280	62	30.65%
Radeon HD 4850	60	35.00%
Radeon HD 4830	53	52.83%
GeForce 9800 GT	52	55.77%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2	51	58.82%
Radeon HD 3870	47	72.34%