MSI GeForce 8500 GT 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 mid-range cards, we decided to run this program in two resolutions, 1024×768 (which is considered low for today’s standards and thus providing a simulation for low resolution) and 1600×1200 (which provides a simulation for high resolution). 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 4x (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 except the cards marked with “OC”, which are cards that are factory-overclocked.
| 3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 –1024×768 | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC | 20100 | 147.42% |
| GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) | 18236 | 124.47% |
| GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC | 17211 | 111.85% |
| GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) | 15741 | 93.76% |
| GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX) | 14487 | 78.32% |
| Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS) | 13663 | 68.18% |
| Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS) | 10574 | 30.16% |
| Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS) | 10271 | 26.43% |
| GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (NVIDIA) | 9557 | 17.64% |
| GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX) | 8984 | 10.59% |
| Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS) | 8935 | 9.98% |
| GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI) | 8124 | |
| GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis) | 7359 | 10.40% |
| Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI) | 6385 | 27.24% |
| GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron) | 5593 | 45.25% |
| GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek) | 4179 | 94.40% |
| 3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1600×1200 | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC | 11393 | 164.15% |
| GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) | 10538 | 144.33% |
| GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC | 9695 | 124.79% |
| GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) | 8797 | 103.96% |
| GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX) | 8450 | 95.92% |
| Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS) | 7556 | 75.19% |
| Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS) | 5429 | 25.88% |
| Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS) | 5385 | 24.86% |
| GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (NVIDIA) | 5255 | 21.84% |
| GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX) | 5086 | 17.92% |
| Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS) | 4497 | 4.27% |
| GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI) | 4313 | |
| GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis) | 4011 | 7.53% |
| GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron) | 2915 | 47.96% |
| Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI) | 2712 | 59.03% |
| GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek) | 2076 | 107.76% |
| 3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1024×768 AAx4. AFx4 | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC | 11675 | 139.59% |
| GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) | 10742 | 120.44% |
| GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC | 10131 | 107.90% |
| GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) | 9119 | 87.13% |
| GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX) | 7980 | 63.76% |
| Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS) | 7602 | 56.00% |
| Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS) | 5592 | 14.75% |
| Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS) | 5396 | 10.73% |
| GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI) | 4873 | |
| GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (NVIDIA) | 4844 | 0.60% |
| GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX) | 4635 | 5.13% |
| Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS) | 4605 | 5.82% |
| GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis) | 3894 | 25.14% |
| Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI) | 3376 | 44.34% |
| GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron) | 2617 | 86.21% |
| GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek) | 1745 | 179.26% |
| 3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1600×1200 AAx4. AFx4 | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC | 6058 | 180.20% |
| GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) | 5612 | 159.57% |
| GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC | 5259 | 143.25% |
| GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) | 4639 | 114.57% |
| GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX) | 4276 | 97.78% |
| Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS) | 4110 | 90.10% |
| Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS) | 2714 | 25.53% |
| Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS) | 2691 | 24.47% |
| GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX) | 2320 | 7.31% |
| GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (NVIDIA) | 2237 | 3.47% |
| Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS) | 2217 | 2.54% |
| GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI) | 2162 | |
| GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis) | 1917 | 12.78% |
| GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron) | 1212 | 78.38% |
| Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI) | 1038 | 108.29% |
| GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek) | 837 | 158.30% |