AquaMark3	Source: Massive Development

AquaMark3 is a powerful tool to determine reliable information about the gaming performance of a computer system. Because the benchmark extensively utilizes DirectX9, DirectX8 and DirectX7 functionality, it represents the requirements of typical gaming applications in 2003 and 2004.

AquaMark 3 Benchmark Results
	Graphics	FPS	Ranking
1.	ATi Radeon 9800 Pro	5670
2.	ATi Radeon 9700 Pro	4860
3.	Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro	3045
4.	MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra	5436
5.	Albatron GeForceFX 5600 Ultra	2520
6.	MSI G4Ti4600-VT2D8X	2085
7.	Asus Radeon A9600XT	3735
8.	Asus Radeon A9600XT (553/341)	4224

AquaMark 3 Benchmark Results
	Overall	FPS	Ranking
1.	ATi Radeon 9800 Pro	44362
2.	ATi Radeon 9700 Pro	39219
3.	Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro	26530
4.	MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra	42994
5.	Albatron GeForceFX 5600 Ultra	22448
6.	MSI G4Ti4600-VT2D8X	18915
7.	Asus Radeon A9600XT	31590
8.	Asus Radeon A9600XT (553/341)	34997

With AquaMark3 being one of the few DirectX 9 benchmarks in our suite we see that the Asus Radeon A9600XT performs very well. It's significantly faster than nVIDIA's GeForceFX 5600 Ultra.