Aquamark 3
- Author: Massive
- DirectX Class: 9.0
- Pixel and Vertex Shaders: Yes (mixed mode, PS1.4 and PS2.0)
The Radeon's show the FX boards how to do Aquamark 3 properly, both in the mid-range and high end. 9800XT has a field day, with big distance between it and overclocked FX 5900 Ultra, again the fastest NVIDIA card on test.
NVIDIA tell me they will fix the issues causing low Aquamark 3 performance on FX 5700 Ultra, with it possibly being related to not quite being optimised for pixel shader performance on the new 4 pipe version of NV35. Sounds like instruction count penalty in their backend shader parser, although I'm just guessing.
