3DMark06 – Single GPU
The Futuremark 3DMark06 benchmark was released many moons ago and has become a popular test for GPU benchmarks and CPUs as well. You can see my full overview of the new benchmark, what it has to offer over the 2005 version and some other initial scores from my previous article.
**Note that 3DMark Vantage software is out, but we didn’t have it when testing was done on these cards. Expect more 3DMark Vantage results very soon!
Scaling across our series of synthetic tests is pretty straightforward – the higher the clocks on the 9600 GT card the better the score. The AMD Radeon HD 3870 still has some advantages in a couple areas but that only matters if it pans out on in real-world gaming, which it did not.
