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. 

Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP 2DHTV Video Card Review - Graphics Cards 66

Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP 2DHTV Video Card Review - Graphics Cards 67

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 Extreme AX1800 XT TOP 2DHTV Video Card Review - Graphics Cards 68

Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP 2DHTV Video Card Review - Graphics Cards 69

Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP 2DHTV Video Card Review - Graphics Cards 70

Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP 2DHTV Video Card Review - Graphics Cards 71

The Asus X1800 XT TOP has a very good showing here in Doom 3, overpowering the 7800 GTX by a small margin, though all three cards are more than playable at these settings. 

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