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DirectX 9 is the latest in graphics but in reality, most games are still running on DX8 and probably still the best benchmark for the latter is 3DMark2001SE. It is no secret either that the P4, regardless of what flavor is not the greatest performer in that benchmark either, however, for review purposes it still has enough muscle to separate the three cards we are looking at today.

Turquoise: Sapphire X800XT; Pink: GeForce 6800 GT, Orange: X300.

Regardless of the DX8 capabilties of the cards, what separates the wheat from the chaff is the performance in the current high-level DX9 applications that make use of the advanced features of the graphics engines. To keep up with the latest developments Futuremark has released its latest iteration of 3DMark with the 05 suffix and if one leaves out the ffi, then it sux.. but that was Kyle... I am still undecided whether the benchmark is really valuable or not but we need to hand it to Futuremark that the graphics are pretty spectacular to say the least. 3DMark05

Turquoise: Sapphire X800XT; Pink: GeForce 6800 GT, Orange: X300. The Sapphire X800XT pulls quite a lead here over the GeForce 6800

To make a long story of endless benchmarks short, we are only using the scores from "Return to Proxycon", all other gaming benchmarks within 3DMark05 actually scale pretty much the same way.

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Turquoise: Sapphire X800XT; Pink: GeForce 6800 GT, Orange: X300. Bottom line is that none of the cards actually manages to maintain fully playable frame rates.

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