AquaMark 2.3	Source: Massive Development

AquaMark is another DirectX 8 benchmark. Vertex shaders provide a huge image quality and speed boost for compatible cards. The Default test has 24 MB worth of textures.

AquaMark
1027x768	FPS	Ranking
MSI RX800XT-VTD256E	143.3
Gigabyte GV-RX80L256V	142.8
PowerColor X700 Pro	115.2
PowerColor Bravo X700	93.7
Albatron Trinity PC6600	92.5
Asus Extreme N6600TOP/TD/128M/A	126.1
Albatron Trinity PC6600U	119.8
MSI NX6600GT-TD128 AGP	123.2
MSI NX6600GT-VTD128SP	89.4
Albatron Trinity GeForce 6600GT AGP	124.5
Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D	131.6
Gigabyte GV-3D1 (Single GPU Mode 500/1120)	131
Gigabyte GV-3D1 (SLI Mode 500/1120)	130
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (Single)	134.1
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (SLI Mode)	130.5
1280x1024	FPS	Ranking
MSI RX800XT-VTD256E	131.8
Gigabyte GV-RX80L256V	127.4
PowerColor X700 Pro	81.1
PowerColor Bravo X700	63
Albatron Trinity PC6600	61.4
Asus Extreme N6600TOP/TD/128M/A	89.6
Albatron Trinity PC6600U	84.1
MSI NX6600GT-TD128 AGP	93.7
MSI NX6600GT-VTD128SP	78.9
Albatron Trinity GeForce 6600GT AGP	96.1
Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D	104.7
Gigabyte GV-3D1 (Single GPU Mode 500/1120)	102.7
Gigabyte GV-3D1 (SLI Mode 500/1120)	123.3
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (Single)	104.5
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (SLI Mode)	120
1600x1200	FPS	Ranking
MSI RX800XT-VTD256E	115.4
Gigabyte GV-RX80L256V	103.2
PowerColor X700 Pro	55.7
PowerColor Bravo X700	42.5
Albatron Trinity PC6600	45.3
Asus Extreme N6600TOP/TD/128M/A	65.9
Albatron Trinity PC6600U	60.8
MSI NX6600GT-TD128 AGP	70.2
MSI NX6600GT-VTD128SP	64.5
Albatron Trinity GeForce 6600GT AGP	71.7
Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D	77.2
Gigabyte GV-3D1 (Single GPU Mode 500/1120)	78.3
Gigabyte GV-3D1 (SLI Mode 500/1120)	114
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (Single)	77.2
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (SLI Mode)	112.7

Here we see SLI allowing the midrange 6600GT cards to remain viable at high resolutions. It's starting to look like SLI is good news for gamers! As usual the AGP cards are slightly behind, and the slower 6600-based cards are well behind (despite posting decent scores). The 6600GT-based chips outperform their x700 Pro counterpart here. The MSI NX6600GT-VTD128SP card records puzzlingly low scores on this benchmark, being beaten out by the over-performing tweaked 6600 core of the ASUS Extreme card.