Sub-$200 Video Card Roundup - April 2002
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 16, 2002 3:51 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Quake III Arena
This game requires no introduction, the test has been with us for a while and we continue to use it as the engine continues to have a lot of life left in it. We tested with the game's High Quality defaults.
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III Arena 800x600x32 |
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At 800x600 we are primarily CPU bound in this test and thus the majority of the cards perform very close to one another.
Quake
III Arena 1024x768x32 |
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The situation changes slightly at 1024x768; you'll notice that this is one of the few cases where there's a small performance difference between the 64MB Radeon 8500 and the 128MB Radeon 8500LE. Quake III Arena doesn't really have a use for the added texture memory so it favors the additional memory bandwidth of the Radeon 8500 over the 8500LE.
This is one benchmark in which the GeForce4 MX does extremely well in, mostly because it is an older game and is mainly dependent on memory bandwidth which the GeForce4 MX has a good amount of at the GPU's disposal.
Quake
III Arena 1280x1024x32 |
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Even at 1280x1024 the performance of almost all of the contenders is well above respectable, only the old GeForce2 MX 400 is unable to keep up at this high of a resolution.
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