Elsa Gladiac Ultra: A Perfect Graphics Card?

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Benchmarks: Quake III Arena

The Radeon's frame rates are high enough to provide smooth game play at all resolutions. As you can see, the Gladiac Ultra scores exactly the same results as the GeForce 2 Ultra reference board from nVIDIA.

At highest quality the frame rates are clearly dropping. The Ultra cards are still able to provide 50+ frames per second at 1600x1200x32. Cards with ATI's Radeon or the GeForce 2 GTS are way behind those excellent results.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.