Theomen, listen I am a big time computer tech.
Now the reason why DOOM 3 scored higher on the 5950 was because when Doom 3 was in the begining of development, Geforce 3 was NVIDIA\'s new card. Point is, at that time NVIDIA was the king with almost no competition, therefore they were setting the standards at the time. Carmack when developing doom 3 coded the game specifally with NVIDIA hardware in mind, shaders, etc.. using the NV code path\'s.
Also those benmarks are in no way a means to determine the performance of the card considering those bench\'s where run on tweaked(optimized) drivers by NVIDIA to make it look better for doom 3.
5800xx-5900xx seriers of NVIDIA cards are pure crap, only thing they are goos for is frying your eggs on them. If you are not concered with Image Quality, Driver cheats, no full support of fp24(NVIDIA uses mix mode fp16-32) then NIVIDA all the way.
I\'lll stick with hardware that produces qulaity, thank U
Now this march ATI and NVIDIA should be releasing info on the NV40 and R420.
We will see if NVIDIA has pulled there socks up.