Performance - Quake III Arena
Performance - 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 | 1600x1200 |
Compro GeForce 4 Ti4200 8x | 277 | 237 | 75 | 126 |
4xAA + 8xAF | 220 | 113 | 64 | 41 |
Radeon 9700 Pro | 256 | 246 | 221 | 174 |
Radeon 9800 Pro | 257 | 248 | 231 | 193 |
GeForce FX 5800 Ultra | 281 | 273 | 253 | 214 |
Exactly where the videocard should be. Amazing performance for a very reasonable price. And hey, we didn't even overclock it yet. *hint*
Let's look at the Athlon 1800+ platform once more.
Quake III Arena 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 Athlon XP 3000+ 277 237 175 126 Athlon XP 1800+ n/a 193 160 123