Here are the specs of our test systems.

Our test system was Windows Vista Home Premium with the 8.3 ATI Catalyst Drivers and Nvidia's 169.28 Forceware drivers. V-sync was disabled with all tests.

Let's start things off with Crysis, the most advanced game engine on the market currently.

Here we see some excellent numbers from the overclocked Radeon HD 3650 with the card obtaining a very playable 34 frames per second at 1024x768 with medium settings. We were actually shocked how little it lags behind the GeForce 8600GTS at both resolutions only 3fps slower and easily besting a GeForce 8600 GT. The 3450 doesn't fair as well here and shows that the card is more of a mainstream offering.

We switch over to id and Splash Damage's Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, one of the last Open GL games on the market. Open GL has typically favored Nvidia and this tends to be the case here but we also see the GeForce 8600 GT suffer heavily at the higher resolution of 1600x1200 due to low memory clock speeds while the overclocked 3650 performs excellently and just under the GeForce 8600 GTS.