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Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark2001SE used to be a great graphical benchmark until people started to realize that it is also very system dependent, meaning that tweaking memory timings and speeds greatly affects performance.  3DMark03 was released and became one of the most referred to benchmark for graphical power.  It is based off of DirectX 9 and since ATI dominates the DirectX performance, ATI usually tends to win in this area.  3DMark05 is also very similar to 3DMark03, but just a new version with more stringent testing methods.