3DMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage is the follow-up to the highly successful 3DMark06. It uses exclusively DX10 so if you are running Windows XP, you can forget about running this benchmark. However, it presents us with a truly stressful test of any modern graphics card so we have decided to begin including it in our testing procedure.

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Here we see much the same as in 3DMark06 but with some very interesting differences. To begun with, the 8800GT OCX is actually able to surpass the stock 9800GTX in terms of scores at every resolution. In addition to this, the 9600GT OCX is behind the stock 8800GT at the Performance preset but surges ahead when using the High and Extreme presets. Overall, these are extremely impressive results.