ATI Radeon HD 5830 Review

3DMark 06

3DMark06 is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX9 performance of your graphics card. 3DMark06 is the most downloaded benchmark and the ORB database of 3DMark 06 results, maintained by Futuremark, now contains over 8.5 million 3DMark06 benchmark scores from around the world. Three main graphic tests from 3DMark05 were carried over to 3DMark06 and updated. The tests included in 3DMark 06 feature HDR rendering, shadow mapping, water surfaces created using pixel shaders with HDR refraction, HDR reflection, depth fog and Gerstner wave functions, heterogeneous fog, light scattering and cloud blending, etc.

3DMark 06 has long been a standard benchmark used to determine the changes in performance in a system. It gives a very good idea of the general performance to be expected from each of these cards. The HD 5830 quite easily shows its dominance early out.

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Given its age and simplicity versus modern video cards, ABT is considering dropping 3DMark 06 from our test bench. Please let us know what you think about this. Just drop us a line in the forum or comment on the article from the main page.