Windows Benchmarks

Since this system is running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista, the benchmark results we find here will be slightly lower than what we'd expect to see in Windows XP or Windows 2000. However, 64-bit is the next step in computing, so we feel benchmarks in a 64-bit environment are more realistic for many new machines.

Our benchmarks for this system will consist of Futuremark's 3dMark06 and the new 3dMark Vantage, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament 3, and Quake 4, and Half-Life 2. Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake 4 both have native Linux ports, allowing me to directly compare performance between the two operating systems.

Futuremark 3dMark06

The benchmark is about two years old now, but still an effective way to look at a video card's performance.

Whereas the Toxic scored 9021 in 3DMark06, the Ultimate scored 8785, a mere 236 points behind the Toxic. For a slightly slower clock speed, these are fantastic results.

Unreal Tournament 2004

Unreal Tournament 2004 was once again the oldest game we used to benchmark this system. The game may be a little older, but it remains a reasonable benchmark for raw performance. UT2004 was also one of the first games to have a native 64-bit port. We ran a simple bot match with all the settings on high. To run the botmatch and record our desired results, we used to following command line options: ut2004 dm-rankin?spectatoronly=1?numbots=12?quickstart=1?attractcam=1 -benchmark -seconds=77 -ini=default.ini

As the graph shows, the Radeon HD3870 Ultimate keeps up the pace with the Radeon HD3870 Toxic. The maximum FPS is a a little lower, but impressive none-the-less.