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 video configuration was left on the factory defaults for a very simple reason: to measure the influence of the processor on the system 3D performance. If we raised the image quality settings, we would be measuring the influence of the video card instead.
Even though it is an old game, in this game the influence of a larger memory cache is clearly seen on the final results, being a good program to evaluate this feature.

In this game Sempron 3400+ was 5.85% faster than Pentium 4 3 GHz, 7.63% faster than Sempron 3100+, 43.66% faster than Athlon XP 3200+, 53.42% faster than Athlon XP 2800+, 64.51% faster than Sempron 2800+ and 98.85% faster than Duron 1.8 GHz.
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz was 3.73% faster, Pentium 4 3.4 GHz was 7.95% faster, Athlon 64 3200+ was 10.29% faster, Athlon 64 3400+ was 17.12% faster, Athlon 64 3800+ was 21.63% faster, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.2 GHz was 25.04% faster and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.4 GHz was 26.95% faster than the reviewed processor.