Albatron GeForce FX 5700P Turbo

Let's turn our attention to one of my favorite games to this day, Serious Sam: TSE.  Even though Sam runs on dated DirectX 7, it is still fun and very popular.  Serious Sam is also continues to be a great OpenGL bench.  Using the Elephant Atrium Demo in the resolutions you see to give us some numbers.  The 'Speed' and 'Quality' are the default settings within Serious Sam's setup with no other changes made. 

The non-ultra product still lags behind but notice how close the averages are at 1024x768 resolution.  This is the resolution I play games at and it is a pleasure to see that I can get 160 fps out of a $140 card. 

Next up is the old faithful, Quake 3 Arena.  Hopefully, we will soon be replacing this with Doom3.  Our results here were generated with the help of the Guru3D's Quake 3 benchmarking program that offers several options.  We selected the quality mode in OpenGL for Demo 001.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is another somewhat dated but still very applicable benchmark for OpenGL much in the same way Quake 3 Arena is.

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Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - The Card
Page 3 - Performance / UT2003
Page 4 - Performance / Serious Sam: TSE, Quake 3, RTCW
Page 5 - Performance / Code Creatures, AquaMark v3, FSAA
Page 6 - Overclocking / Conclusion