Even though Quake III is an old game, it continues to be an excellent system benchmarking program, since this game is very sensitive to any memory and memory cache change.
 
We used the demo four available on version 1.32 of Quake III to make our benchmarking with this game. We ran this demo three times at the game’s default configuration and we picked the middle value for our comparisons, i.e., we discarded the highest and the lowest values.

The results, in frames per second, you can see on the graph below.

Athlon 64 FX-57 performance on this game was really impressive: 9.15% faster than Athlon 64 4000+, 11.53% faster than Athlon 64 FX-55, 15.44% faster than Pentium 4 E.E. 3.4 GHz, 17.21% faster than Pentium 4 E.E. 3.2 GHz, 27.66% faster than Athlon 64 3800+, 32.88% faster than socket 754 Athlon 64 3200+, 35.76% faster than Pentium 4 3.4 GHz, 41.29% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, 48.45% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz ”E“ (”Prescott“), 55.13% faster than Pentium 4 3 GHz and 110.55% faster than Athlon XP 3200+.