Performance - 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.

Pretty clear picture I'd say. Let's look at AA:

If you are missing out on the Scewed Grid AA modes then you are absolutely right. You won't see them in any OpenGL applications as they are only supported in Direct3D. Doing 95 Frames per second on a mid-range PC with 4x AA is really nice I'd say.