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2007 Graphics Performance Charts

By Vincent Chang - 6 Sep 2007

Results - Quake 4

Results - Quake 4

Like in many of our previous benchmarks, Quake 4 showed that the older cards still have what it takes to compete against the new generation. As prices plunge to the lowest for these cards, they can be very attractive, short-term solutions. The mid-range GeForce 8 and Radeon HD cards in particular, have not been very convincing and in Quake 4, we saw the Radeon HD 2600 XT losing out to the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT while the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT fared even worse. We also saw the GeForce 7950 GT and Radeon X1950 PRO outperforming the GeForce 8600 GTS. Meanwhile, some of the entry level cards were not much better than integrated graphics, registering single digit frame rates in Quake 4, which itself is not that demanding by current standards. Although these new cards do have the advantage of DirectX 10 support and dedicated video processors, going by these scores, we aren't sure if these are real advantages or only good on paper. That will of course be a story for another day, but in this article, it's all about raw gaming performance of existing games.

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