3DMark05	Source: FutureMark

3DMark05 is the latest version of the highly favoured 3DMark graphics benchmarking series. It is the first benchmark to require DirectX®9.0 compliant hardware with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 or higher.

3DMark05
Overall:	Points	Ranking
Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/400)	5483
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/400)	N/A
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/400)	5149
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400)	N/A
ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400)	4662
VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/400)	5431
AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400)	5483
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 X800XT)	5576
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 GeForce 6600GT Single)	3557
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 GeForce 6600GT SLI)	6007
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 X800XT)	5579
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 6600GT Single)	3619
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI)	6114
CPU:	Points	Ranking
Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/400)	5096
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/400)	N/A
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/400)	4694
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400)	N/A
ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400)	4228
VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/400)	4447
AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400)	4585
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 X800XT)	4619
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 GeForce 6600GT Single))	4700
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 GeForce 6600GT SLI)	4564
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 X800XT)	5110
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 6600GT Single)	5140
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI)	5133

3DMark05 is SLI compatible and here we see that both the Intel and AMD nForce4 SLi boards show similar performance gains when SLI is enabled. The Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal turns in the best score among the Intel boards once again. The NF4 AMD system is quite capable by comparison.

AquaMark3	Source: Massive Development

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

AquaMark3
1024x768 Processor	Points	Ranking
Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/400)	10218
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/400)	10426
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/400)	10261
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400)	10274
ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400)	10036
VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/400)	9816
AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400)	10241
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 X800XT)	10312
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 GeForce 6600GT Single))	9562
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 GeForce 6600GT SLI)	9379
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 X800XT)	11152
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 6600GT Single)	11190
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI)	11074
1024x768 Overall	Points	Ranking
Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/400)	61497
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/400)	62489
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/400)	61216
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400)	61045
ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400)	60856
VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/400)	60484
AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400)	61246
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 X800XT)	61556
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 GeForce 6600GT Single)	54002
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400 GeForce 6600GT SLI)	65807
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 X800XT)	80026
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 6600GT Single)	57785
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI)	79474

Things are closer here in AquaMark3 but the Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal motherboard still performs very well when compared to its Intel competition. Our AMD SLI system saw slightly more benefit out of running dual cards than our Intel board did.