Page 11 - Quake III Arena performance
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 |
|
GeForce 4 Ti42008x |
277 |
237 |
75 |
126 |
|
Radeon 9800 4xAA + 8xAF |
256 |
212 |
149 |
106 |
|
Radeon 9700 Pro |
256 |
246 |
221 |
174 |
|
Radeon 9800 Pro |
257 |
248 |
231 |
193 |
|
GeForce FX 5800 Ultra |
281 |
273 |
253 |
214 |
|
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra |
281 |
272 |
253 |
215 |
Performance Mode |
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra |
280 |
273 |
257 |
226 |
Quality Mode |
4xAA + 8xAF |
255 |
241 |
194 |
151 |
Performance Mode |
4xAA + 8xAF |
259 |
222 |
168 |
131 |
Quality Mode |
4xAA + 8xAF @ 1800+ |
195 |
186 |
157 |
127 |
Quality Mode |
Athlon XP 1800+ |
208 |
203 |
198 |
183 |
Quality Mode |
Sjeesh .. look at the framerates ... it's almost flying. The funny thing is that in a later stage of this article we are going to overclock the card and push that number a bit higher. Pure geek'ness.