Doom 3
About Doom 3:
Very similar to previous versions of Doom, you play an anonymous marine who was sent to a base on mars for a routine mission. Scientists on the base were exploring a set of ruins where they made a discovery of a set of tablets. On these tablets were records that the martians once found a type of teleportation device that lead to hell. Finding this out too late, the development was invaded by demons, and you find yourself forced to fight your way to safety.
Benchmarking Doom 3:
Before we talk about how we are going to benchmark Doom 3, lets first define some programs and features we will be taking advantage of.
| FRAPS: A benchmarking tool that records the FPS of your active window, namely Doom 3, and adds that information to a spreadsheet. Once finished recording it will tell you the minimum, maximum, and average frames per second of what it was recording. |
| Time Demo: A pre-recorded set of data recorded from true game play. The time demo will be replayed by the game engine as if you are playing it your self, it will then time how long it takes the render the entire record. At the conclusion of the test it will report the number of frames rendered, how long it took to render, and the average frames per seconds. |
Since benchmarking our actual game play will produce a different result each time, we decided to use a timedemo. Using this timedemo will produce results that make the comparison between different products easy and accurate. Luckily, Doom 3 comes with a pre-recorded timedemo called “Demo1”, in order to run this demo you must first open the command prompt by pressing and holding Ctrl, Alt, ~, once open type “timedemo <Demo_Name>”. Thus said, we will be using both the built in benchmark and fraps to benchmark the timedemo to try and get an accurate reading.
Benchmark Results:
For Doom 3, we decided to max out the settings, which can be seen in the two following pictures. It was set to Ultra High Quality with a resolution of 1600×1200 with 16x Antialiasing.
Like all of the other benchmarks we tested the AMD Phenom 9950 using both the stock settings and our overclocked settings. Unlike the other benchmarks the results were identical, both rendered the 2148 frames in 35.8 seconds resulting in 60.0 fps, although this is because Doom 3 maxes out at 60 fps and cannot be played any higher.
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AMD Phenom 9950 @ 2.6GHz
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AMD Phenom 9950 @ 3.0GHz
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Very good information! I am also having good success at 3.0 ghz so far. Thanks for the hard work on putting this together
I have been looking looking around for this kind of information. Will you post some more in future? I’ll be grateful if you will.
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is also preparing for a Monday launch of its new platform built around the new Phenom processors and the 700 series chipsets. While we are hearing nice things about the flagship 790FX chipset that will also be launched next week, the expectations are all about the processors, especially because it will give current AM2 socket motherboard owners the possibility of swapping and upgrading to the new generation of CPUs without having to change additional components.