Doom 3 - Delta Labs
We'll kick off our gaming benchmarks with Doom 3. Our first Doom 3 test uses a gameplay demo we recorded inside the Delta Labs complex, and it represents the sorts of graphics loads you'll find in most of the game's single-player levels. We've tested with Doom 3's High Quality mode, which turns on 8X anisotropic filtering by default.

Doom 3 hasn't been kind to Radeon cards, but the XL is able to hold its own, slightly edging out the GeForce 6800 thanks to the its sixteen-pipe architecture. The XL can't quite keep up with the GeForce 6800 GT, but it cranks out playable frame rates as high as 1280x1024 with 4X antialiasing. Personally, though, I'd say 1280x1024 with 2X AA was the best mix of playability and image quality in my subjective testing on the XL.