Ultimate Quake III Video Card Showdown

P III – 1GHz Quake3 High Quality

Running the boards with all the bells & whistles, brings down the frames rates of each card considerably. The Ultra, which gets 162.1 frames at 640×480, goes down to 58.3 at 1600×1200. But I consider anything above 55FPS to be absolutely playable. The gap between the GF2 GTS and the Radeon reduces as the resolutions increase. The obvious explanation to this is the Radeon’s additional 32MB’s of memory ,though clocked slower than the GF2 GTS memory , it helps the more detail, color depth situations of the high quality settings, especially at the higher resolutions.