Quake 4 uses the same game engine as Doom 3 and, since we are comparing high-end cards, we ran this program in higher resolutions, as performance difference between high-end video cards is more expressive on such resolutions. We chose two resolutions, 1600x1200 and 2048x1536, first with image quality set at “low” and then with image quality set at “high”. We upgraded this game to version 1.3 and run the id_demo001 net demo that comes with this version. Click here for more details on how to use Quake 4 to benchmark a system. The results you check below and are given in frames per second. All video cards listed below were running with the default clock rates defined by the chip manufacturer.

 

Quake 4 1.3 - 1600x1200 - Low	Score	Difference
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	123.46	81.53%
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	116.70	71.59%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	99.87	46.85%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	84.35	24.03%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	83.15	22.26%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	73.48	8.04%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	68.01

 

Quake 4 1.3 - 2048x1536 - Low	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	106.07	157.83%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	99.90	142.83%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	70.20	70.64%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	58.32	41.76%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	57.29	39.26%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	50.27	22.19%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	41.14

 

Quake 4 1.3 - 1600x1200 – High	Score	Difference
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	119.54	88.64%
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	113.26	78.73%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	96.33	52.01%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	81.33	28.34%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	80.17	26.51%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	70.91	11.90%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	63.37

 

Quake 4 1.3 - 2048x1536 - High	Score	Difference
GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX)	102.71	159.57%
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI)	96.08	142.81%
GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis)	67.80	71.34%
GeForce 7900 GT (XFX)	56.44	42.63%
GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX)	55.44	40.11%
GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia)	48.51	22.59%
Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor)	39.57