Quake III Arena
Last but not least, Quake 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 ..
| Quake III ArenaThe 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. |
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| Quake III Arena | 1024x768 | 1280x1024 | 1600x1200 |
| Radeon 9000 Pro AGP8x | 203 | 100 | 69 |
| GeForce4 MX 440 @ AGP4x | 163 | 117 | 84 |
| GeForce4 MX 440 @ AGP8x | 164 | 118 | 84 |
| GeForce3 Ti 500 | 193 | 150 | 111 |
| GeForce4 Ti 4200 64 MB | 200 | 159 | 119 |
| GeForce4 Ti 4600 | 206 | 179 | 143 |
| Radeon 9700 | 188 | 182 | 163 |
| Radeon 9700 Pro | 191 | 185 | 173 |
Don't ask me what is going on in 10x7 versus the GeForce cards. But I guess it has to do something with driver optimizations, but .. damn women, the score in 16x12 sure is nice to see. I arrest my case .. more modern and Graphics Core demanding games would of course produce much lower results .. but then just switch back to 10x7 right ?
