3D Performance: Quake III

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.

As you can see on the graph, this game is very sensitive to memory configuration. We can say that comparing the 64-bit GeForce FX 5200 result to the 128-bit GeForce FX 5200 result: the 128-bit version was 33.69 faster. The on-board video performance from Foxconn WinFast 760GXK8MB was on the 85 frames per second range, while the performance of the 64-bit GeForce FX 5200 was on the 270 frames per second range (218.47% faster) and the performance from other entry-level video cards tested was on the 360 frames per second range (they were 327% faster, on average).

With 85 frames per second, Quake III is “playable” on this motherboard, but don’t expect that newer games will have a great performance on this motherboard.

On the other hand, when we installed a Radeon 9800 Pro on this motherboard once again it achieved a performance similar to MSI K8N Neo Platinum using the same video card, meaning that installing a “real” video card can make this motherboard achieve the same performance level of a high-end board.

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