Official Doom III Benchmarks from [H]ardOCP

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AmdInside

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http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQy

As John Carmack said of DOOM 3 in our introduction, "all of the modern cards play the game very well." The NVIDIA 6800Ultra and 6800GT video cards along with the Radeon X800XT-PE are going to be stellar DOOM 3 performers probably giving the gamer better Image Quality and framerate performance than we ever thought would be possible at the launch of DOOM 3. These three GPUs are simply going to deliver a level of visual gameplay immersion in DOOM 3 that will likely blow away even the most hardened game player or hardware enthusiast. That said, it looks as if ATI's decision to scale their current line of flagship video cards by crippling the Radeon X800Pro?s graphics pipelines to 12 pipes, instead of the 16 pipes of the Radeon X800XT-PE might have been a bad move, at least in terms of satisfying DOOM 3 players. NVIDIA on the other hand chose to scale from their Ultra to GT models by only decreasing the clock speed of the GPUs. The NVIDIA 6800GT certainly stood out among the crowd as its DOOM 3 framerates continually outpaced the Radeon X800XT-PE that currently has a list price that is $100 more than the GeForce 6800GT. NVIDIA has told us more than once that the 6800 series was ?designed to play DOOM 3,? and the truth of that statement is now glaringly obvious.
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edumacated81

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i think my card will get here a little sooner than Doom 3 - but i really cant wait now!!

especially for the price of the card ^330^
 
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For those of you that think you are not going to have the hardware that you need to play DOOM 3, the fact of the matter is that many of you will be just fine, although an upgrade may still be in your future. As of this afternoon we were playing DOOM 3 on a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and having a surprisingly good gaming experience. Even a subtle jump to an AMD 2500+ with a GeForce 3 video card that is two years old will deliver a solid gaming experience that will let you enjoy the game the way id Software designed it to be. That fact alone should let many of you know that you will not be left behind in experiencing DOOM 3.
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EWhere is BFG10K :p

comments?

:p

:roll:

i THOUGHT so. ;)


EDIT: looks like my system's 3.3Ghz/Radeon 9800xt "sweet spot" is 1024x768 Hi Quality w/2xaa&4xaf . . . MUCH better than i expected. :p
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AmdInside

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I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to preorder Doom III yet. Really excited now though. :cool:
 
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Originally posted by: CRXican
Originally posted by: Cat
This repost thread is beating my original. :) Oh, the shame!
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cause you didn't cut and past the key paragraph!
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Clearly my journalistic skill is horrible.
 
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AmdInside

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Sorry Cat. In all fairness, they were pretty close to each other. When I typed mine up, there were no other threads on this in the General Hardware forum. Nor was there a mention in the Doom III requirements thread. And also, your post is a respost of the original thread you started in the Video forum. So I guess you could say this is a repost of a repost. :shocked:
 
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Isn't Hard OCP ATI fanboys?

if so, EXPLAIN THIS from their conclusion:
Looking at the cream of the crop in video cards, it is painfully obvious that ATI is going to have to make some changes in their product line to stay competitive, at least with DOOM 3 gamers. There is no way for a $500 X800XT-PE to compete with a $400 6800GT when the GT is simply going to outperform the more expensive card by a good margin. I am sure ATI is trying their best to figure out their next move and it will certainly be interesting to see if their driver teams pull a rabbit out of their hat or not.
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Wrong move to get an X800 pro for Doom III :p

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JackBurton

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Originally posted by: Cat
This repost thread is beating my original. :) Oh, the shame!
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Dude, you didn't put "OFFICIAL" in the title. That word really gets these geeks' attentions.
 
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bignaz2k

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Now its a question of where i should preorder Doom 3. EBgames offers a "Pinky" figurine ( http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/223988.asp ), Gamespot offers 10% off any other game or free overnight shipping if preordered with half-life - no longer offers "Baron of Hell" figurine ( http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=644930 ), and Best Buy offers free shipping, a "Mancubus" figurine, and a Doom 3 poster ( http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat19200050015&type=category ).

Best Buy looks pretty good to me - free shipping and the Mancubus will look pretty bad-ass on my desk (though the "Pinky" figurine was damn good looking, too).

Bah, decisions, decisions.
 
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Davegod

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The folks at id Software have been kind enough to share with us benchmarks from the upcoming DOOM 3.
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so, theyre not benchmarked by hardocp, or anyone else vaguely independent, but the company who got $Xm from nvidia? These really more reliable that Valve's shouting about ATI cards?

Plus more than likely nvidia have been given more access to code so they could optimise for it already - same for HL2 and ATI.

I dont like benches not done by trustworthy sites. That said, I'd still expect the nvidia cards to beat the ati, who really need to do better on opengl.
 
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JackBurton

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Originally posted by: Davegod
The folks at id Software have been kind enough to share with us benchmarks from the upcoming DOOM 3.
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so, theyre not benchmarked by H or anyone else vaguely independent, but the company who got $Xm from nvidia? These really more reliable that Valve's shouting about ATI cards?

Plus more than likely nvidia have been given more access to code so they could optimise for it already - same for HL2 and ATI.
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Please stop with the conspiracy theories. It's just getting old. :roll:
 
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