NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT Performance

Doom 3 – HQ and 4xAA

Turning on AA in Doom 3 shows an automatic performance hit across the board.  The 6600GT and 6800NU are still completley playable at these settings and only a few times did the 6600GT get low enough that I would call it annoying.  These times occurred when the game was loading new textures of flying fireballs and other items. 

Nearly half of the time on this run the X600XT from ATI is below the 10 FPS mark and it shows in the average framerate of 12.7 compared to the 6600GT’s average of 33.3; nearly 3x faster!  I probably still wouldn’t recommend playing the 6600GT at this level of quality however for the best gameplay.

Trying to complete this run with the X600XT was just not going to happen as it was such a slide-show that getting good runs out of it was just impossible.  The 6600GT and 6800NU were able to complete their runs, but with much lower performance in the second half of the run through.