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Performance - Quake III Arena
imageview.php?image=105Quake III Arena, what a revolution this game was when it got released. Now it has become a standard by itself as solid and respectable benchmark utility for journalists .. The game that everybody knows is naturally Quake III Arena. Seriously, who doesn't own it or at least has played it once ? Q3A is of course an excellent game to use as benchmark. It's an up-to-date game and has new options available to test the card to it's maximum. We used the standard Demo001 timedemo.

We tested the videocard with Quake3 Arena in High Quality mode, 32 Bit colors. Available resolutions we tested where 800x600 up to 1600x1200 with quality settings set to maximum.

Of course there are far better benchmarks than Quake III, yet this benchmark always places a graphics card in the right perspective performance wise. Yes, we do not need 200 frames per second. But this benchmark scales the difference in graphics cards just so very nice. More modern and Graphics Core demanding games would of course produce much lower results.

 

Quake III Arena 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
GeForce FX 5200 210 159 108 75
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 256 217 204 166 125
GeForce FX 5900 128 217 212 202 180
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 217 212 205 192
448/945 217 213 206 189
Pentium 4 - 2.8 GHz 371 344 278 211

The results are of course by far excellent. Quake III is getting outdated though. 371 Frames per Second in 800x600 on the Pentium 4 2.8 GHz hah .. fun to see. And also this 211 FPS in 1600x1200, roar !

Quake III Arena 4xAA 8xAF 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
GeForce FX 5200 123 50 31 21
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 256 205 126 75 47
GeForce FX 5900 128 202 185 148 114
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 204 198 176 144

Even with AA and AF enabled at a high level the 5900 remains doing really huge numbers. Anything above 50-60 Frames per second for any game is more than sufficient though.

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