Doom 3
Doom3 (OpenGL)

Without a doubt, the release of Doom 3 has been one of the most anticipated gaming releases on the PC market, ever.  And it’s easy to see why; 4 years of heavy press-covered development and a promise to change the way computer games look.  John Carmack and the id Software team are never one to disappoint. 

For our testing, we set the Image Quality to High and turned on all the options that you see in the screen shots below. 

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For our image quality settings during testing, we set both ATI and NVIDIA drivers to “Application Controlled” Antialiasing and Anisotropic filtering, leaving the Doom 3 engine the task of setting the options.  Since we left the game on High Quality mode, 8x AF was always enabled, and we ran tests with both Antialiasing set at Off and at 4x.

Asus N7800GT DUAL Review - 7800 SLI on a Single Card - Graphics Cards 77

Asus N7800GT DUAL Review - 7800 SLI on a Single Card - Graphics Cards 78

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Asus N7800GT DUAL Review - 7800 SLI on a Single Card - Graphics Cards 80

In this test at 0xAA we see basically no difference between any of the three setups.  At 4xAA the n7800GT DUAL falls just behind the 7800 GTs in SLI mode, but is still faster than the single 7800 GTX and has a higher minimum framerate.

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