3DMark05 is concentrated on measuring the performance of the DirectX 9 generation of 3D hardware using the technology of next generation games. Earlier 3DMark versions have usually been launched with the introduction of a new Microsoft DirectX version and with the introduction of a new hardware generation. This has somewhat limited how much 3DMark has utilized the new hardware features. At the time of this writing, DirectX 9 was introduced soon two years ago, and there is now DX9 generation hardware available all the way from the very high end to value and mobile parts. 3DMark05 can thereby utilize the features of DirectX 9 to a 100%. In fact, DirectX 9 hardware is required for every game test of 3DMark05, resulting in the ultimate tool for DirectX 9 hardware performance comparison.

Nothing strange here. All tests were done with the same VGA card, to eliminate differences in performance that might be caused by the VGA card. As expected, the 4000+ is slower than the FX-55 and faster than the 3800+. It should be noted that both the 3800+ and 4000+ are clocked at 2400MHz, while the FX-55 is clocked at 2600MHz.