Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Official Doom 3 Benchmarks Released

Posted by simoniker on from the doom-indigo dept.

Rogerpq3 writes "Before the game goes on sale, id Software has been kind enough to release some benchmarks for DOOM 3 with the latest video cards on the market from NVIDIA & ATI. HardOCP has published the five page article which should help anyone trying to decide if they should upgrade their video card for DOOM 3. There's also an introductory note from John Carmack, mentioning: 'The benchmarking was conducted on-site, and the hardware vendors did not have access to the demo before hand, so we are confident that there is no egregious cheating going on.', and the HardOCP writers comment: 'As of this afternoon we were playing DOOM 3 on a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and having a surprisingly good gaming experience.'"

5 of 573 comments (clear)

  1. How about an Amiga port? by Amiga+Lover · · Score: 5, Funny

    Any news on the possibility of an Amiga port? The new Amigas have some awesome hardware. G3 800mhz or higher than 1GHz G4 cpus, DDR and some kind of Radeon.

    I think it's a quite obviously untapped market there for games authors, an entire community that grew up on THE games machine clamoring for more.

    1. Re:How about an Amiga port? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Any news on the possibility of an Amiga port? The new Amigas have some awesome hardware. G3 800mhz or higher than 1GHz G4 cpus, DDR and some kind of Radeon.

      What would be really cool is an iPod port because iPod is awesome and it has a screen, a processor, and some kind of scroll wheel with clickable buttons.

  2. More or less than 1 fps by Radix37 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's the most important question... would my p3-450 with a voodoo2 break 1 fps or not?

    --
    Speed Demos Archive - Lots of speed runs!
    1. Re:More or less than 1 fps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I've got the solution to your Doom 3 problems.

      Even heard of chess by e-mail? My company has just opened a subscription-based service--Doom3ByEmail.com.

      You allocate a frame subscription of your chosen duration with any major credit card, we send you a rendered frame from your own personalized Doom 3 game, you send us an XML file containing directional commands, and we send you the resulting frame...

      Who said Doom 3 wouldn't run on your PDA?

  3. Sweeeet! by Horizon_99 · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is the coolest thing I've heard so far about the game:
    Talking to John briefly about his overclocking comments made some things clear to us that many enthusiasts will need to be aware of. When he speaks of "new usage patterns" he is literally talking about transistors on some of new GPUs that are going to be used for the first time when you play DOOM 3 on your video card. So be aware that pushing your GPU MHz may get you different results in DOOM 3 than with other games.
    Yeah, bring my card to it's knees JC!

    Hey just realized while typing this that JC's initals are JC, it all makes sense...