Thief 3 Deadly Shadows is based on the same engine as DeusX. The game makes severe use of Pixel Shader 1.1 instructions, the bloom effect and stencil shadows to achieve a wonderful result on your screen.

In the game, you play the part of Master Thief Garrett who is back to rule out any evil forces using his unique stealth abilities. Deadly Shadows shows what stealth gameplay is all about. This game really gives you the feeling of sneaking around and holding your breath when stuck in a sticky situation.

Since there is no official benchmark for the game, we'll do our tests using a GPU intensive scene from the tutorial-level which we believe that represents the average fps you'll get when playing the game.

In Thief 3, the MSI NX6600GT managed to rank above the Asus N6600GT for once. The difference however is small and the two 6600GTs show similar performance. However, "the way it's meant to be played" is shown by the X800XT PE with 41fps at 1280x1024.

Starting with 27 and 25 fps at 640x480, the two 6600GT cards just show their lack of power to render the Multisampling and Anisotropic-Fitering enabled scene.