Futuremark's family of 3D benchmarks needs no introduction. We put the XpertVision through the last few iterations of 3DMark. Just note that graphical bottleneck goes up in later versions, whilst CPU limitations exist in the more aged tests.

Synthetic benchmarks from the Futuremark family are meant to pull apart mild differences in performance, which makes them almighty useful in our labs. When it comes to real-world applications, take a step back to the previous page and see how insignificant the differences are. Due to higher GPU/Shader clocks, the Sparkle consistently outperforms the XpertVision Sonic. Simply said, we're still looking at 8800GT performance with either cards. Users of either card shouldn't lose sleep over 3DMark scores.

Then again, if you were a 3DMark whore, you'd be overclocking these babies yourself. That, my dear readers, is exactly what we're going to do next. *grins*