Quake III Arena

Quake III ArenaLast 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 .. 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.

Don't ask me what is going on in 10x7 versus the GeForce cards. But it has to do something with driver optimizations. Of course there are far batter benchmarks than Quake III yet this benchmark always places a graphics card in the right perspective performance wise. More modern and Graphics Core demanding games would of course produce much lower results.