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 benchmark, what it has to offer over the 2005 version and some other initial scores from my previous article.
This aging benchmark shows the new 4850 X2 with a significant advantage in the synthetic tests including the pixel shader, vertex shader and even SM3.0 tests. However in the overall results, the score of the card is only 5% faster or so than the GeForce GTX 280.