Performance - Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena
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 .. 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 1600x1200Radeon 9700 Pro 256 246 221 174Radeon 9800 Pro 257 248 231 193GeForce FX 5800 Ultra 281 273 253 214
FA and AA results:
Quake III Arena 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200Radeon 9800 Pro 257 248 231 1932x AA 258 245 205 1514x AA 256 227 166 1166x AA 252 186 124 868x AF 260 248 214 16816x AF 260 247 210 1644x AA & 8x AF 256 212 149 106
