AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 - Page 7

Futuremark 3DMark03

3DMark is a widely used and accepted benchmark that stresses the DirectX performance of a VGA card. For testing the performance of each card we use the 4 game benchmark 3DMark offers. The first is a DirectX 7 game, the second and the third use DirectX 8 and the last one stresses graphics in DirectX 9. A very strong point of 3DMark is that its VGA card measuring does not require a lot of CPU power. So the resulting fps are a good reference of a VGA card's rendering performance.

GT3 - Troll's Lair	GT4 - Mother Nature

++On the following chart you can see the computed 3DMark03 points using our Sapphire 9800 pro Ultimate card on three different processors.

Performance with the FX-55 is slightly improved compared to the 3800+, and both processors left the Intel 2.8GHz behind by 500 3dmarks.