Page 11 - Benchmarks 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 - XP 1800+ | 1024x768 | 1280x1024 | 1600x1200 |
| VIA KT133 (SDRAM) | 179 | 174 | 161 |
| VIA KT400/8235 | 191 | 185 | 173 |
| 7NNXP NFORCE2 | 221 | 206 | 173 |
As you can get extremely high framates with this benchmark with a modern system it'll also show performance differences quite good. As you can see the nFORCE2 is really efficient. There's a definite improvement over the KT400 chipset. The results overall are of course by far excellent and although getting outdated Quake III is an excellent piece of software to precisely measure performance with.
