At the default quality settings and 16 bit color depth Quake III runs pretty fast on all cards. Once again the Matrox G450 scores less than half the frame rate due to both insufficient memory bandwidth and fill rate.
After running all tests again at the maximum quality settings and 32 bit, the frame rate at 1024x768 drops to ~50 fps, which is definitely fast enough to enjoy the game. Matrox can only keep pace up to 800x600.
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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.
