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Gaming: Prey
Prey tells the story of Tommy, a Cherokee garage mechanic stuck on a reservation going nowhere. Abducted along with his people to a menacing mother ship orbiting Earth, he sets out to save himself and his girlfriend and eventually his planet.
In Prey, players enter a living spaceship that enslaves alien races and devours humans for lunch. Prey turns the first-person-shooter genre upside-down with new gameplay features like wall-walking and gravity flipping, making for intense single- and multiplayer experiences. Prey is built on a heavily modified version of Doom 3 engine and is developed by Human Head Studios under the direction of 3D Realms.
What you are looking at are the results at 4xAA and 16xAF with all possible image IQ settings to high in-game. Again an example on how close performance is to a GeForce 7600 GT. In the lower resolutions the Series 7 product wins a little, yet the minute we move over 1600x1200 the ball rolls towards the 8600.
Synthetic benchmarking: 3DMark 05 & 06 Business Edition
Literally millions and millions benchmark results have been submitted to Futuremarks Online ResultBrowser database. It has become a point of great prestige to be the holder of the highest 3DMark score. A compelling, easy-to-use interface has made 3DMark very popular among game enthusiasts. Futuremarks latest benchmark series, 3DMark03 up-to 3DMark06, continues this tradition by providing a Microsoft DirectX 9 benchmark.
The introduction of DirectX 9 and new hardware shader technologies puts a lot of power in the hands of game developers. Increasingly realistic 3D games will be available over the next year and a half. The use of 3D graphics will become more accessible to other applications areas and even operating systems.
In 3Dmark06 we push a score of a near 5200 points for the GT; with almost 11000 points for 3DMark05. It really is a pretty nice score for the money. Unfortunately the influence of the CPU has such an impact on the overall score that the 06 scores as far as I'm concerned are not reliable any longer.
I really believe that Futuremark should go back to the original formula and leave the CPU performance out of the calculation.
