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Quake3 Arena

The most widely used and abused benchmark for graphics and system performance. Unfortunately, not only hardware but also drivers are recently being optimized for Q3A which taints the validity of the benchmark results. On the other hand, it is justified to question the criticisms because it all comes down to the question of what was first, the hen or the egg? That means, did the optimizations take place because of the acceptance of the application or did the application gain acceptance because it showed the optimizations? A philosophical question but nonetheless something to think about.

High Quality (800x600x32bpp)

Average frame rates in Quake 3 Arena at the default High Quality setting, the numbers for the Tyan Tiger, even though running in MP Mode are included since the system runs at approximately the same price point as the P4 systems.

Normal (640x480x16bpp)

Average frame rates in Quake 3 Arena at the default Normal setting. The results speak for themselves.

Fast (512x384x16pp)

Not much to add here.

Fastest (512x384x16bpp)

Simply amazing how fast we can run nowadays. Essentially, it is impossible to see anything at this speed

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