We ran Quake 4 multiplayer demo id_demo001 on 1024x768x32 with no image quality settings enabled. We run it four times and the results shown on the chart is an arithmetic average of the collected data. The results are in frames per second. For more information on how to use Quake 4 to benchmark a PC, read our tutorial on this subject.

On Quake 4, probably due to the larger L2 memory cache, Intel CPUs based on Core microarchitecture were faster than all other CPUs included in our comparison. Here Core 2 Duo E6700 was 17.40% faster than Athlon 64 FX-62, 30.32% faster than Athlon 64 X2 5000+, 30.86% faster than Athlon 64 FX-60, 41.54% faster than Athlon 64 X2 4600+, 52.14% faster than Athlon 64 3800+ and 72.78% faster than Pentium 4 550.

Core 2 Extreme X6800 was 6.61% faster than Core 2 Duo E6700, 25.15% faster than Athlon 64 FX-62, 38.93% faster than Athlon 64 X2 5000+, 39.50% faster than Athlon 64 FX-60, 50.89% faster than Athlon 64 X2 4600+, 62.19% faster than Athlon 64 3800+ and 84.19% faster than Pentium 4 550.