Page 12 - 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 |
| Pentium 4 2.4 (800) | 357 | 342 | 296 | 234 |
| Pentium 4 2.6 (800) | 378 | 357 | 303 | 237 |
| Pentium 4 2.8 (800) | 397 | 372 | 308 | 237 |
| Pentium 4 3.2 (800) | 430 | 395 | 316 | 238 |
The results are of course by far excellent from 2.4 towards 3.2 GHz. Quake III is getting rather outdated though. Still it is an excellent piece of software to precisely measure performance with and well ... 430 Frames per Second in 800x600 on the Pentium 4 3.2 GHz is extremely breathtaking to witness. And also this 238 FPS in 1600x1200, roar !
