Quake 4 is the latest shooter from ID and is based on the
Doom 3 engine. Tweaked to for more eye candy, Quake 4 promises to be tougher on
videocards and systems than its predecessor was. Quake 4 also does not have a 60
fps limiter like Doom 3, with the Ultra setting, graphic textures can surpass
the 500MB mark!
Quake 4 |
LQ 640x480: |
FPS |
Ranking |
Intel Pentium D 840 |
127.3 |
   |
Intel Pentium D 940 |
142.8 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 4000+ |
142.8 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 |
153.1 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (GeForce 7800GTX Single) |
150 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (GeForce 7800GTX SLI) |
146.3 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (Overclocked to 2.92 GHz) |
166.8 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (GeForce 7800GTX Single) |
161.4 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (GeForce 7800GTX SLI) |
166.1 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (Overclocked to 3.08 GHz) |
177.9 |
   |
HQ 1024x768: |
FPS |
Ranking |
Intel Pentium D 840 |
124.8 |
   |
Intel Pentium D 940 |
141.3 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 4000+ |
140.6 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 |
143.6 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (GeForce 7800GTX Single) |
133.2 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (GeForce 7800GTX SLI) |
145.1 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (Overclocked to 2.92 GHz) |
143.8 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (GeForce 7800GTX Single) |
151.3 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (GeForce 7800GTX SLI) |
161.2 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (Overclocked to 3.08 GHz) |
170 |
   |
The benchmark results for the video game Quake 4 are
certainly very interesting. The FPS results indicate that CPU L2 cache plays a
large role, since even the single core Athlon64 4000+ performs faster than the
Athlon64 X2 5000+ processor under HQ 1024x768 conditions. Intel shows us once
again that it does not have the best gaming CPU out there.