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Despite its age, Quake3 Arena is still a wonderful benchmark. The results low resolutions are system limited, whereas the frame rates at high resolution are defined by the fill rate limitations of the graphics card. Essentially, any of the benchmark results below 800 x 600 x 32 (HQ) show the poerformance of the "slow" T-Bird running at 1600 MHz, above that, we are really getting into the performance of the Gainward card.

The chart does not need much explanation, at low resolution, the performance potential of the card is wasted since the system itself is the bottleneck. As mentioned above, the cutoff where the graphics card comes into play is at about the high quality setting.
(FF to HQ are Quake3 Arena standard settings. C corresponds to 1024x768, CC to 1280x1024 and CCC to 1600x1200. All three C-settings are 32 bit color depth and maximum detail.)

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