Doom 3 is one of the heaviest games available today. As we’ve done on other programs, we ran this game at three resolutions: 1024x768x32, 1280x1024x32 and 1600x1200x32. This game allows several image quality levels and we’ve done our benchmarking on two levels, low and high. We ran demo1 four times and wrote the obtained number of frames per second. The first result we discarded at once, since it is far inferior than the other results. This happens because at the first time we run the demo the game must load all textures to video memory, fact that doesn’t happen from the second time we run the demo on. From the three results left, we consider as our official result the middle result, i.e., we discard the highest and the lowest values. Curiously almost all times the values obtained at the second round on were the same.

A very important detail that we must mention is that Doom 3 has an internal FPS lock: it is only capable of generating 60 frames per second, even if your board is able to produce more frames per second than that. This is done in order to make the game to have the same "playability" sensation independently from the video card installed on the PC. This lock, however, is disabled in the game benchmarking mode.

For further details on how to measure 3D performance with Doom 3, read our tutorial on this subject.

At a resolution of 1024x768 without any image quality enhancement, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX achieved similar performance to its rival, the XFX GeForce 7800 GTX and it was 11.83% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 14.27% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 24.51% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 69.96% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 74.68% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 205.83% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 275.00% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

When we activated the dynamic overclocking mode of GeForce 7800 GTX from MSI, it also achieved performance similar to its rival, the XFX GeForce 7800 GTX and it was 13.37% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 15.84% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 26.22% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 72.30% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 77.08% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 210.03% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 280.16% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 without any image quality enhancement, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX achieved similar performance to its rival, the XFX GeForce 7800 GTX and it was 18.02% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 19.26% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 50.92% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 142.36% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 146.99% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 361.22% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 465.00% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

When we activated the dynamic overclocking mode of GeForce 7800 GTX from MSI, it also achieved performance similar to its rival, the XFX GeForce 7800 GTX and it was 21.67% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 22.96% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 55.59% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 149.87% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 154.64% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 375.51% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 482.50% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 without any image quality enhancement, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX achieved similar performance to its rival, the XFX GeForce 7800 GTX and it was 25.47% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 29.49% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 76.03% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 204.91% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 216.86% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 516.79% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 662.26% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

When we activated the dynamic overclocking mode of GeForce 7800 GTX from MSI, it was 3.78% faster than XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, 32.30% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 36.54% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 85.62% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 221.51% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 234.12% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 550.38% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 703.77% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

At a resolution of 1024x768 enabling image quality enhancements, GeForce 7800 GTX from MSI achieved similar performance to its rival, the XFX GeForce 7800 GTX and it was 11.96% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 14.57% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 32.20% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 85.71% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 92.20% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 236.69% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 308.73% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

When we activated the dynamic overclocking mode of GeForce 7800 GTX from MSI, it also achieved performance similar to its rival, the XFX GeForce 7800 GTX and it was 14.11% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 16.77% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 34.75% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 89.29% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 95.89% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 243.17% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 316.59% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

At a resolution of 1280x1024 enabling image quality enhancements, GeForce 7800 GTX from MSI achieved similar performance to its rival, the XFX GeForce 7800 GTX and it was 19.22% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 22.51% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 59.82% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 157.85% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 165.57% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 382.07% faster than Radeon X600 XT da ATI, e 491,33% mais rápida do que a Radeon X600 Pro da Sapphire.

When we activated the dynamic overclocking mode of GeForce 7800 GTX from MSI, it was 3.35% faster than XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, 24.33% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 27.76% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 66.67% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 168.90% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 176.95% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 402.72% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 516.67% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

At a resolution of 1600x1200 enabling image quality enhancements, GeForce 7800 GTX from MSI achieved similar performance to its rival, the XFX GeForce 7800 GTX and it was 30.77% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 32.50% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 84.10% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 219.60% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 231.54% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 588.79% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 675.73% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

When we activated the dynamic overclocking mode of GeForce 7800 GTX from MSI, it was 4.08% faster than XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, 37.64% faster than NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, 39.47% faster than ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., 93.78% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 236.40% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 248.96% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 625.00% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 716.50% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.