Aquamark 3
Aquamark 3 is Massive's baby, using DirectX 9.0 and a decent number of Shader Model 2.0 shaders to render its images.At the somewhat preferred setting of 1024x768 with 4xAA and 8xAF applied, there's really nothing to choose between the 5900XT and Radeon 9600XT, with the Point of View 5900XT taking the token win. Being a DX9 test based on a real-world game engine that's used to produce shipping games, Aquamark 3 is a nice backup to 3DMark03 in our mostly synthetic tests. Both indicate the 5900XT is slightly faster, but there's barely anything between them.