Aquamark3: Accurate Benchmarking for Old and New (DirectX9) Apps?

4x-FSAA- & 8x-Aniso-Performance

High-Detail Test 1024x768 4x AA / 8x Aniso

High-Detail Test 1600x1200 4x AA / 8x Aniso

We colored the scores with the NVIDIA drivers v45.23 and v51.75 because they do not render the correct image (see quality comparison). The only driver rendering a correct image is v44.03 from Mai 2003, which shows a very low performance compared with the ATI cards.

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Triscore Detail Overview

In the end, here's a detailed result table from AquaMark 3's Triscore measurements:

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Header Cell - Column 0 R9800P 256 MB v3.7 5900U v44.03 5900U v45.23 5900U v51.75
AquaMark 3 Tricore 44839 25128 43044 45826
Dynamic Occlusion Culling 91,68 36,76 82,56 91,00
High Particle Count 27,16 17,30 28,66 29,51
Masked Environment Mapping 65,00 28,87 56,52 60,29
Large Scale Vegetation Rendering 26,90 16,31 22,61 23,31
Large Scale Terrain Rendering 54,46 29,19 46,96 51,60
Vertex And Pixel Lighting 55,26 28,47 51,51 56,50
3D Volumetric Fog 65,12 35,09 62,91 70,69
Complex Multimaterial Shader 42,96 24,23 44,23 47,18
Massive Overdraw 27,34 19,40 31,15 32,45