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.

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 v3.75900U v44.035900U v45.235900U v51.75
AquaMark 3 Tricore44839251284304445826
Dynamic Occlusion Culling91,6836,7682,5691,00
High Particle Count27,1617,3028,6629,51
Masked Environment Mapping65,0028,8756,5260,29
Large Scale Vegetation Rendering26,9016,3122,6123,31
Large Scale Terrain Rendering54,4629,1946,9651,60
Vertex And Pixel Lighting55,2628,4751,5156,50
3D Volumetric Fog65,1235,0962,9170,69
Complex Multimaterial Shader42,9624,2344,2347,18
Massive Overdraw27,3419,4031,1532,45