ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Review
3DMark03
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3DMark03 simulates DirectX 8 and 9 games. Even though this program may be considered “old”, we ran it to see how the tested video cards perform on older games. Since we are comparing high-end cards, we ran this program in higher resolutions, as performance difference between high-end video cards is more expressive on such resolutions. We chose three resolutions, 1600×1200, 1920×1440 and 2048×1536. At each resolution we simulated two scenarios, first with no image quality enhancements enabled (this scenario we called “low”) and then with anti-aliasing set at 4x and anisotropic filtering set at 16x (this scenario we called “high”). The results you check below. All video cards listed below were running with the default clock rates defined by the chip manufacturer.
| 3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1600×1200 | Score | Difference |
| Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD) | 23150 | |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) | 22565 | 2.59% |
| GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) | 15392 | 50.40% |
| GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) | 14387 | 60.91% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) | 12020 | 92.60% |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) | 11744 | 97.12% |
| Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) | 11243 | 105.91% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 10278 | 125.24% |
| 3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1920×1440 | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) | 18351 | 3.75% |
| Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD) | 17687 | |
| GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) | 12081 | 46.40% |
| GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) | 11287 | 56.70% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) | 9437 | 87.42% |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) | 9245 | 91.31% |
| Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) | 8731 | 102.58% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 8018 | 120.59% |
| 3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 2048×1536 | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) | 16953 | 4.47% |
| Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD) | 16228 | |
| GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) | 11327 | 43.27% |
| GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) | 10348 | 56.82% |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) | 8386 | 93.51% |
| Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) | 7656 | 111.96% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 7272 | 123.16% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) | 7066 | 129.66% |
| 3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 1600×1200 AAx4, AFx16 | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) | 13181 | 29.25% |
| Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD) | 10198 | |
| GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) | 8637 | 18.07% |
| GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) | 7903 | 29.04% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) | 6634 | 53.72% |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) | 6422 | 58.80% |
| Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) | 6236 | 63.53% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 5553 | 83.65% |
| 3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 1920×1440 AAx4, AFx16 | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) | 10231 | 30.95% |
| Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD) | 7813 | |
| GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) | 6535 | 19.56% |
| GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) | 6037 | 29.42% |
| Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) | 4765 | 63.97% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) | 4637 | 68.49% |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) | 4467 | 74.90% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 3850 | 102.94% |
| 3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 2048×1536 AAx4, AFx16 | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) | 9235 | 29.91% |
| Radeon HD 2900 XT (AMD) | 7109 | |
| GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) | 5494 | 29.40% |
| GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) | 5409 | 31.43% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) | 4187 | 69.79% |
| Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) | 4091 | 73.77% |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) | 4030 | 76.40% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 3470 | 104.87% |