Gaming Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003 (Flyby)

With this review we continue to use the final retail version of Unreal Tournament 2003 as a benchmark tool. The benchmark works similarly to the demo, except there are higher detail settings that can be chosen. As we've mentioned before, in order to make sure that all numbers are comparable you need to be sure to do the following:

By default the game will detect your video card and assign its internal defaults based on the capabilities of your video card to optimize the game for performance. In order to fairly compare different video cards you have to tell the engine to always use the same set of defaults which is accomplished by editing the .bat files in the X:\UT2003\Benchmark\ directory.

Add the following parameters to the statements in every one of the .bat files located in that directory:

-ini=..\\Benchmark\\Stuff\\MaxDetail.ini -userini=..\\Benchmark\\Stuff\\MaxDetailUser.ini

For example, in botmatch-antalus.bat will look like this after the additions:

..\System\ut2003 dm-antalus?spectatoronly=true?numbots=12?quickstart=true -benchmark -seconds=77 -exec=..\Benchmark\Stuff\botmatchexec.txt -ini=..\\Benchmark\\Stuff\\MaxDetail.ini -userini=..\\Benchmark\\Stuff\\MaxDetailUser.ini -nosound

Remember to do this to all of the .bat files in that directory before running Benchmark.exe.

Gaming Performance
Unreal Tournament 2003 - Flyby Benchmark - 1024x768 Maximum Detail
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton

Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz (875P-800MHz)

Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz (875P-533MHz)

Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz (875P-533MHz)

AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.083GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz)

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz)

AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz)

AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz

AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz)

AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.8AGHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.6AGHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz

214.9

213.8

208.8

205.5

200.8

199.7

198.6

198.2

194.9

193.6

187.9

180.5

175.1

174.9

171.6

170.1

169.4

165.1

161.8

161.0

156.1

152.0

151.7

147.9

143.6

142.3

141.6

135.2

130.8

128.5

124.9

120.4

114.5

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43
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86
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129
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172
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215
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258

The 800MHz FSB brings the Pentium 4 directly upon the heels of AMD's Athlon XP 3000+.

General Usage Performance Gaming Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003 (Botmatch)
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  • Anonymous User - Friday, September 19, 2003 - link

    Umm...right whatever, at least we can spend $2000 and get a powerful monster where as you get a let me see...133Mhz G3?! (OK, that's pushing it but you get the idea.) Besides, I might get a 3.0C Pentium-IV! BUAHAHHAH!
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, July 20, 2003 - link

    http://anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1810

    Umm, make that the APPLE Powermac G5, and it's not 800MHz, it's 1GHz!

    You pee cee people crack me up. Enjoy your little kids toys!
  • Thatguy97 - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - link

    Lol how times change
  • mwdmeyer - Thursday, March 18, 2021 - link

    Lol how times change

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