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Results Continued

Aquamark3

Aquamark3 is another synthetic benchmark that drives the video card to the max.  Once again, the 6800GT is the clear winner.  The performance gap widens as details are turned up.

With the synthetic benchmarks revealing the 6800GT as a clear winner, how does the 6800 OC fare when it comes to real world gaming performance?  The three gaming benchmarks I used are the most current games that benefit greatly from having a good video card.  Let's start with the ever-popular Doom 3.

Doom 3

The major hype about Doom 3 was the beautiful graphics produced.  With such detailed realistic graphics, a good video card is a necessity.  From the results shown, the difference in the lack of 4 pixel pipelines is rather significant, especially when eye candy is turned on.

Far Cry

Like Doom 3, Far Cry is an extremely video intensive game.  It's interesting to see that my system is already pushing the limits when resolution is set at 1024x768 for the 6800GT.  Graphical power is carrying the system through the benchmark.  There is only a single frame drop when eye candy is maxed out.  The 6800 OC took a big hit when details were turned on at high resolutions.

Unreal Tournament 2004

Unreal Tournament is very popular game due to its online multiplayer capabilities.  Like Far Cry, the 6800GT carried the benchmarks throughout at a resolution of 1024x768.  And like Far Cry, the 6800 OC was good but took a major hit when details were turned on. 

With the 6800 OC trailing behind in performance due to the lesser 12 pipelines, hopefully the performance gap won't be as large when some overclocking is done.

Overclocking did improve the performance of the 6800 OC, as it should, but the performance was minimal.  There was only a one to two frame increase in performance in Doom 3 and Far Cry.  Unreal Tournament 2004 gained a little more with seven extra frames.  Overclocking did not help make up for the loss of the 4 pipelines, but it did help gain a couple of frames.