THE LAST REVISION of Futuremark's 3D graphics benchmark, 3DMark03, brought a storm of controversy on the little Finnish company, largely because they'd incurred the wrath of NVIDIA. Futuremark survived, however, and their benchmark has proven itself over time. Our latest round of tests in our Radeon X700 XT review used a number of state-of-the-art games, including the Doom 3, Half-Life 2's Source engine, and Far Cry. The performance results we saw in those games tracked very well with the results we got from 3DMark03, somewhat vindicating the benchmark as a decent predictor of performance in the now-current wave of games.



Link: The Tech Report