3D Blaster 5 FX5900 Ultra review

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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 5900 128 395 360 284 212
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 397 372 308 237
3D Blaster FX 5900 Ultra 397 371 308 238
500/948 397 178 326 256

The results are of course by far excellent. Quake III is getting outdated though. 397 Frames per Second in 800x600 on the Pentium 4 2.8 GHz hah .. so funny to see. And also this 238 FPS in 1600x1200, roar !

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

Quake III Arena 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
GeForce FX 5900 128 344 221 154 115
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 352 242 171 131
3D Blaster FX 5900 Ultra 353 242 171 131

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