ATI's Radeon 9600 Pro - Another Win for ATI

Quake III Arena

As we just mentioned, the Quake III engine is still being used and thus performance using the engine shouldn't be ignored. For this reason we continue to use Quake III Arena as a benchmark, despite its insanely high performance results:

Quake III Arena 1024x768 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 ATI Radeon 9600 Pro ATI Radeon 9500 Pro NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 500 ATI Radeon 9500 309.0 281.8 237.1 236.7 232.5 215.2 198.8 | 0 | 62 | 124 | 185 | 247 | 309 | 371

Quake III Arena 1280x1024 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra ATI Radeon 9600 Pro NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 ATI Radeon 9500 Pro NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 500 ATI Radeon 9500 215.2 184.5 155.7 155.2 153.5 142.6 124.9 | 0 | 43 | 86 | 129 | 172 | 215 | 258

Quake III Arena 1600x1200 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 ATI Radeon 9600 Pro ATI Radeon 9500 Pro NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 500 ATI Radeon 9500 155.3 131.5 110.3 110.0 109.9 103.6 91.4 | 0 | 31 | 62 | 93 | 124 | 155 | 19

NVIDIA clearly takes the lead in Quake III Arena thanks to significant driver optimizations for the game, even the GeForce4 Ti 4200 is able to outperform the Radeon 9x00 cards compared here.