We ran through an empty level in the same exact way in FRAPS with Unreal Tournament 3 to obtain these scores to make it repeatable. Unlike some other scores we've seen in regards to UT3 Nvidia seems to fair better here than ATI but that will be the opposite with Quake Wars. The 3870X2 does again come out on top at the highest resolution.

We ran through a timenetdemo of a recorded multi-player match of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, one of the few new Open GL games on the market. Though we did get in gameplay types of all kinds in the recording it shows some opposite results of what we've seen from others with ATI dominating and Nvidia falling behind. Our results were repeatable and accurate so a lot has to do with exactly what you're rendering on screen but ATI cleans up here at least with our demo.

Finally we move onto Futuremark's 3DMark 2006, a favorite of some video card vendors although only a synthetic benchmark.

Although it can't best a 3870 X2 Foxconn's GeForce 8800 GT OC fairs quite admirably besting the other AMD cards we tested.

Overclocking we were able to hit 710MHz stable for the core and we eeked out a memory clockspeed of 1.96GHz which brought a few additional frames per second but nothing dramatic in our results.

And finally here is power consumption which shouldn't come as a surprise to most with the 3870 and 8800 GT mostly even though the ATI part does come in lower while the 3870X2 does use much more power at load. We used 3DMark to obtain the load scores.