The Games of Christmas '08: GPU Performance Part II

X3: Terran Conflict: GPU Performance

After playing through the game trying to find a suitable zone for benchmarking purposes, we finally gave up and began using the stand-alone benchmarking tool from Egosoft. Believe it or not, after over 20 hours playing X3: Terran Conflict, it seems the benchmarking tool combines the worst and best case scenarios of the game quite accurately. The minimum framerates you see here are the averages for the 4 sections of the benchmark.

1440 X 900



1680 X 1050


If anything, the results in X3: TC show us how poor the HD 3870 does when it comes to situations where AA is turned on. As we should all know by now, this game really tends to favour ATI cards with the HD 4670 providing some excellent $ / FPS performance.