15. Doom 3

Today, Doom 3 and Far Cry qualify as the most optically appealing 3-D shoot'em-ups. Just as Far Cry does, Doom 3 also works best with a fast graphics card and a fast CPU. Memory bandwidth has no measurable impact on these results. Obviously, the only thing that matters is the largest possible L2 cache.

Games Direct X9

Far Cry

As far as graphics quality goes, Far Cry is surely one of the most advanced 3-D shoot'em-ups. The price that this exacts from those who want the most out of this game is large outlays for the processor and graphics cards.

The AMD CPUs also scale in this test, depending on the size of their L2 caches and increases in memory bandwidth resulting from use of faster RAM. This avails them nothing, however, against the monster L2 cache in the Pentium M processor.