An old Toshiba laptop I just found:
Mobile P4 532 (3.06GHz w/ hyper-threading, 1MB L2, 533MHz FSB) 1GB DDR333 CL2.5, Radeon 9000 IGP, onboard audio, XP Pro SP3

640x480 Med: 10.3 fps
1024x768 Ultra: 5.3 fps

I am bumping the thread with this somewhat period correct score.

Pentium D 965 EE @ 4.6, Geforce 7900GTX. 1024*768 Ultra.

Here is the score with the CPU running at stock speed, not very impressive. The Pentium D EE seem to need really high FSB.

Now I'm really starting to wonder about these results.
Pentium M at 2.70 should not be that close to your C2D at 2.66. And Opteron 185 at 3.0/3.13 GHz should not be 13/31 fps faster than C2D E6700. Bizarre stuff. Do you have all DX9C updates installed?

I just noticed a slight mistake on the Anything Goes Toplist. #11 should be 96.3fps, not 89.3. Yes, Pentium 4 is a slug, but it's not so bad that it completely masks the difference in performance between a 6800GT and GTX 260. 🤣

Standard Def Steve wrote:

Now I'm really starting to wonder about these results.
Pentium M at 2.70 should not be that close to your C2D at 2.66. And Opteron 185 at 3.0/3.13 GHz should not be 13/31 fps faster than C2D E6700. Bizarre stuff. Do you have all DX9C updates installed?

I just noticed a slight mistake on the Anything Goes Toplist. #11 should be 96.3fps, not 89.3. Yes, Pentium 4 is a slug, but it's not so bad that it completely masks the difference in performance between a 6800GT and GTX 260. 🤣

Corrected 😀

I think your systems good performance is because of the version of Doom 3 used. The results seem to indicate that must users (me included) have used the same not very updated Doom 3 version but you probably have a fully updated game?

But no, I do probably not have all DX9 updates installed in any of the systems I have benched.

A recently acquired Celeron 1400 riding along on the same board, GPU and RAM I normally use with my PIII-S.

Celeron 1400, 100MHz FSB, 1.5GB SDRAM 2-2-2, GF6800GT AGP (81.98), XP Pro SP3, VIA 694T, X-Fi Extreme Music
640x480 Medium: 22.7 fps
1024x768 Ultra: 21.5 fps

--Overclocked--

Celeron 1400 @ 1596MHz, 114MHz FSB, 1.5GB SDRAM 2-2-2, GF6800GT AGP (81.98), XP Pro SP3, VIA 694T, X-Fi Extreme Music
640x480 Medium: 29.0 fps
1024x768 Ultra: 28.4 fps

Nearly as fast as a Willamette P4-1800 (31.4/30.2) but well below PIII-S @ 1585 (42.6/41.5).

Standard Def Steve wrote:

A recently acquired Celeron 1400 riding along on the same board, GPU and RAM I normally use with my PIII-S. […]
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A recently acquired Celeron 1400 riding along on the same board, GPU and RAM I normally use with my PIII-S.

Celeron 1400, 100MHz FSB, 1.5GB SDRAM 2-2-2, GF6800GT AGP (81.98), XP Pro SP3, VIA 694T, X-Fi Extreme Music
640x480 Medium: 22.7 fps
1024x768 Ultra: 21.5 fps

--Overclocked--

Celeron 1400 @ 1596MHz, 114MHz FSB, 1.5GB SDRAM 2-2-2, GF6800GT AGP (81.98), XP Pro SP3, VIA 694T, X-Fi Extreme Music
640x480 Medium: 29.0 fps
1024x768 Ultra: 28.4 fps

Nearly as fast as a Willamette P4-1800 (31.4/30.2) but well below PIII-S @ 1585 (42.6/41.5).

Wow, I never expected the difference between the Tualatin Celeron and Pentium to be this huge. I guess Doom III really loves cache 😀.

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Standard Def Steve wrote:

A recently acquired Celeron 1400 riding along on the same board, GPU and RAM I normally use with my PIII-S. […]
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A recently acquired Celeron 1400 riding along on the same board, GPU and RAM I normally use with my PIII-S.

Celeron 1400, 100MHz FSB, 1.5GB SDRAM 2-2-2, GF6800GT AGP (81.98), XP Pro SP3, VIA 694T, X-Fi Extreme Music
640x480 Medium: 22.7 fps
1024x768 Ultra: 21.5 fps

--Overclocked--

Celeron 1400 @ 1596MHz, 114MHz FSB, 1.5GB SDRAM 2-2-2, GF6800GT AGP (81.98), XP Pro SP3, VIA 694T, X-Fi Extreme Music
640x480 Medium: 29.0 fps
1024x768 Ultra: 28.4 fps

Nearly as fast as a Willamette P4-1800 (31.4/30.2) but well below PIII-S @ 1585 (42.6/41.5).

Wow, I never expected the difference between the Tualatin Celeron and Pentium to be this huge. I guess Doom III really loves cache 😀.

I think the FSB and memory speed does more for doom3 perfomence than the cache.

I will add the new results when I get home.

S939 Athlon X2 3800 (2.0GHz), GeForce GTX 560 (331.65), 4GB DDR400 CL2, Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe, X-Fi Ti Fatality, XP Pro SP3

640x480 Medium: 124.8 fps
1024x768 Ultra: 124.9 fps
1600x1200 Ultra: 124.2 fps

Here are two scores with an quad core socket 771 Xeon X5460 running in a nForce 780i board.

Xeon X5460@4400, XFX nForce 780i, 2GB DDR2 926 CL4,4,4,12, Onboard audio, XP Pro SP3.

GTX 285 (186.18) 1024*768 Ultra: 275.6 FPS

Geforce GTX 580 (296.10) 1024*768 Ultra: 281.3 FPS

My latest dumpster find, an ultra small form factor Dell Optiplex 780.

Core 2 Duo e7500 (2.93GHz, 1066FSB, 3MB L2), Intel GMA X4500HD, 4GB DDR3-1066 CL7, onboard audio, XP SP3

640x480 Medium: 35.3 fps
1024x768 Ultra: 26.0 fps
1280x1024 Ultra: 17.2 fps

Core 2 era integrated graphics really suck, even with DDR3.

Another socket 775 system, a bit older this time.

QX6850@4 Ghz, Asus Commando P965, 2GB DDR2@1000CL4-4-4-12, Geforce 8800 GTX 186.18, onboard audio, XP-SP3

1024*768 Ultra: 257.4 FPS

Here is for Anything goes:

486.1 FPS, Shagittarius, i7 4770K@4.4Ghz, EVGA GTX 690, 16GB DDR3 2133-10-11-11-31, ASUS Z87 Deluxe, Soundblaster Z, Win 8.1

Shagittarius wrote:

Here is for Anything goes:

486.1 FPS, Shagittarius, i7 4770K@4.4Ghz, EVGA GTX 690, 16GB DDR3 2133-10-11-11-31, ASUS Z87 Deluxe, Soundblaster Z, Win 8.1

Very nice, the highest score so far.

I have all the parts for a Sandy Bridge socket 1155 system. Some day I will have to put it together to see if I can get close to your nice Haswell score and Eliandas Sandy Bridge-E score.

Here you go:

Same Sandy Bridge-E system, with the cards at 1030 MHz core / 3500 MHz mem. However Doom3 does not support SLI at all.

Nice!

Doom 3 may not support SLI but otherwise it seems to scale really well with new fast hardware. In many other games from 2004 - 2007 a high clocked Core 2 Duo with a decent video card running Windows XP can keep up with new systems running Windows 6.x

My i7 4770 and GTX 980 only run the game at 290 frames in the timedemo. Anyone know the issue? Win 8.1

Nice scores.

Something to add. I did some charts a while ago, but haven't gotten around to posting them yet. Doom 3, and other games from around that era, do benefit from having going from single to dual core.

However when reading reviews from back in the day, having two cores never made a difference. So I wonder if the graphics card they had back in the day simply couldn't show the difference.

This was on a Ivy Bridge Core i5 machine running Windows XP.

MrEWhite wrote:

My i7 4770 and GTX 980 only run the game at 290 frames in the timedemo. Anyone know the issue? Win 8.1

I think this could be an issue having to do with what verson of the game you run. Of course stuff like memory speed and latencys also matters. With the verson of Doom 3 I use I would have expected a stock i7 4770 to get about 300-350 FPS, perhaps 400-450 FPS for an overclocked Haswell with fast memory. To reach 500 FPS I think I would need a Haswell @ 5 GHz 😀 but I do not know for sure until I have tried to run the benchmark with a fast system in Windows 7/8.

Because I use an USB disk for benchmarking I use a "portable" version of Doom 3. This saves alot of time but perhaps I would get a little bit better performance like for example Standard Def Steve if I installed the game from my discs and installed all official updates (and only official updates). I do not really want to switch the version I use because I like to be able to compare all my scores and most people here seem to benchmark with a version of Doom 3 that performes like the version I have used so far.

Skyscraper wrote:

MrEWhite wrote:

My i7 4770 and GTX 980 only run the game at 290 frames in the timedemo. Anyone know the issue? Win 8.1

I think this could be an issue having to do with what verson of the game you run. Of course stuff like memory speed and latencys also matters. With the verson of Doom 3 I use I would have expected a stock i7 4770 to get about 300-350 FPS, perhaps 400-450 FPS for an overclocked Haswell with fast memory. To reach 500 FPS I think I would need a Haswell @ 5 GHz 😀 but I do not know for sure until I have tried to run the benchmark with a fast system in Windows 7/8.

Because I use an USB disk for benchmarking I use a "portable" version of Doom 3. This saves alot of time but perhaps I would get a little bit better performance like for example Standard Def Steve if I installed the game from my discs and installed all official updates (and only official updates). I do not really want to switch the version I use because I like to be able to compare all my scores and most people here seem to benchmark with a version of Doom 3 that performes like the version I have used so far.

I just use the Steam version, no mods installed.

I'm waiting on my 6800GS to arrive, one that unlockes to 16p6v so it will run just like a 6800GT, is that era approriate?