Prey

Even though Prey may be a bit older game compared against many of the other ones we are testing, it still provides a workout of even the best graphics cards on the market. This time we have enabled its Graphics Boost feature (Gboost in the charts) and run through a custom timedemo.


This goes to prove that even though this game is quite old by hardware standards, with all its bangs and whistles enabled it still provides a good workout for higher-end GPUs. This time we see the 9800GTX playing third fiddle to both the HD3870X2 and the older 8800GTX.


Unreal Tournament III

With absolutely stunning graphics, this popular online FPS provides great visuals to go hand-in-hand with palm-sweating gameplay.

For these tests we set up a 15 minute Bot Match on the Serenity level and let it play though. All of the results were recorded with FRAPS.


As is becoming routine, the 9800GTX stays a good 10% ahead of the slightly slower 8800GTS 512MB but is once again unable to bring down the HD3870X2 from the top spot. However, its performance against the 8800GTX (especially at higher resolutions) is extremely impressive for a $300 card.