which gaming benchmark do you prefer?

[gururu]

ati wins here, nvidia wins there....
which benchmark is the most revealing? UT2K3, splinter cell, comanche 4, aquanox, others?

I generally go straight to the UT2K3 benchmarks with max details, high res..
Am I missing something? Which do you take with the most weight, and which with the most salt?

gururu

 

[BoomAM]

UT2003 is the best out of the lot of them for benchmarking.
Splinter Cell is good to test how your system handles shadows.
SeriousSam is good to test the differences between Direct3D & OpenGL.
Quake3 is a good CPU test, in low res.
AquaNox & Comanche4 are a waste of time, both are heavily CPU dependant, and practically all gfx cards score the same.

 

[dnoyeb]

I prefer the packages like madOnion for general card analysis. But then to make the final decision I like to see how the card performs
on games I like to play. So I prefer the RTCW and Doom3 examples because that is what I intend to play and play.

 

[nemesismk2]

Although I use software like 3dmark 2001 se and 3dmark 03 I also benchmark with quake3, serious sam 2, rtcw and ut2003.

 

[CraigRT]

UT2003 for me...BoomAM is pretty much right about the rest

Quak3 is a good CPU bench at the 640x480 and UT2003 is a good video card bench (AND CPU) but mostly video..

 

[BoomAM]

The best thing to do is test whatever programs that reviewers test, that way you can compare to the latest cards.