Quake III Arena Benchmarking

[imported_PrinceGaz]

Because Q3A was probably the most important benchmark in years gone by, so it is fun to see how ridiculously high the framerate is now.

It is meaningless in the grand scheme of things now as it is not representative of current applications, but does no harm as a bit of fun.

 

[Laminator]

Originally posted by: PrinceGaz
Because Q3A was probably the most important benchmark in years gone by, so it is fun to see how ridiculously high the framerate is now.

It is meaningless in the grand scheme of things now as it is not representative of current applications, but does no harm as a bit of fun.

QFT

I remember playing Quake III on a friend's G3 iMac (the fruity ones with the big, triangular case). They had 8MB ATI Rage cards at the time and the game was choppy at default settings. Low geometric detail looks terrible in that game, especially if you're using the rocket launcher, the shotgun, or the grenade launcher. I was very pleased at my TNT2 Ultra's ability to smoke that iMac at Quake III (PC gaming for the win!).

Reviews of the GeForce2, GeForce3, and even GeForce4 cards would test them with Quake 3. The GeForce2 Ultra could run the game smoothly at maximum settings at 1600x1200, IIRC. The GeForce2 GTS and GeForce2 PRO could somewhat do it. I've even seen reviews that have tested the 9700 and X800 cards at Quake 3.

 

[ty1er]

four.DM_68

"Fastest", E6700 @ 2.6GHz, 8800gts: 700 FPS

"High Quality", E6700 @ 2.6GHz, 8800gts: 610 FPS

OC

"Fastest", E6700 @ 3.3GHz, 8800gts: 845 FPS (20.71% increase over stock)

"High Quality", E6700 @ 3.3GHz, 8800gts: 740 FPS (21.31% increase over stock)

 

[Laminator]

Nice increase on that CPU overclock!

P.S. The great thing about this benchmark is that it takes less than 2 seconds...literally.

 

[ty1er]

I just added in the percentage increase (two posts up). I think that I calculated it correctly.

 

[ty1er]

No more results?

 

[Laminator]

I think this game was uninstalled from most people's computers years ago, ha ha.

 

[ty1er]

Originally posted by: Laminator
I think this game was uninstalled from most people's computers years ago, ha ha.

lol, true. This was release in 99? Right? It is unbelieveable fast how time flys by.