Quake 4 Performance: Athlon 64 & X850XT PE, GeForce 6/7 series

[Steve]

Crazy Chris* Tom of AMDZone has been benchmarking the latest edition of the Quake series on various bits of juicy graphics hardware.

Clearly with AA enabled the balance starts to tip towards SLI especially at higher resolutions as we would expect from the Doom 3 engine. We will continue to add additional graphic card configurations to our benchmarks as time allows as we will add Crossfire results, and other Radeon and GeForce numbers soon. From what we see so far if you want to deathmatch with Quake 4 at high resolution and image quality then you will be spending several hundred dollars on a high end video card if you have not already.

[AMDZone]

*Chris may not be crazy, but I am an apparent alliteration abuser.

[Merlin4458]

Sounds to me like the engine is poo. If im going to get 40 fps at 1280 with my setup then thats silly.

[Blackmage]

^^ agreed just like the fear engine, has a load of crap in it.

[Grey M@a]

Man oh man, I love these threads, first off people moan as graphics ain't good, then you get the good graphics and moan more due to it not pushing hundred's of frames a second. Hopefully this is will swing things back the way it should be, playability over graphics. Doom 3 is the perfect proof here, good graphics dog of a plot/story/playability bores the life out of you :/

[probspot]

Sounds to me like the engine is poo. .

Thought this used the doom3 engine?

[Grey M@a]

It does but a lot of people are complaining about it as it really hammers the old graphic cards. Thing is it runs fine on the 6800GT at home and I have worse systems than the one's mentioned above.

[dangel]

OpenGL was/is usually better on nVidia cards. nVidia built a card for the doom3 engine effectively and so it's no suprise nVidia do well here. Half Life 2 mysteriously runs faster on ATI hardware shock/horror _i really wonder why_.
D3 engine is very good but just hasn't been used in a good game (i've yet to play quake 4). Name another engine with all that loverly organic sticky stuff in it

[Grey M@a]

Duke Nukem Forever is on the D3 engine so only time will tell how people use it. Soldier of Fortune 3 is on the D3 engine apparently.

[probspot]

Duke Nukem Forever is on the D3 engine so only time will tell how people use it. Soldier of Fortune 3 is on the D3 engine apparently.

oh dear

[Grey M@a]

Oh Dear? what for? The Doom 3 engine is a good engine its just how the devs work with it. To be honest what Carmack and crew did with the D3 engine was good. The engine and graphics are two different things. Remember Soldier of fortune 2, was the Quake 3 engine with their own front end/models/textures bolted on

[Blackmage]

The Doom 3 engine is good, for doom3 but in quake4 it looks like they have messed with the coding? and it doesn't look that much better then Doom3

[Lord Kordir]

Source > D3 Purely for not being a system hog

[probspot]

Source > D3 Purely for not being a system hog

Couldn't have put it better myself!!

[dangel]

Source > D3 Purely for not being a system hog

er... no. HL2 sucks up plenty of memory thank-you-very-much (and, runs much smoother on 2gig as opposed to 1 because of it).

[probspot]

Memory is alot cheaper than a Gfx card!

[dangel]

Eh? I don't see your point - both games use up lots of memory, and both games require lots of graphic power to see them at their best.