Quake 4 Graphics Performance Compared

Timmus writes "nVidia's huge lead in OpenGL performance is apparently gone. According to Firingsquad, ATI's latest hotfix driver brings major performance improvements to ATI's RADEON X1800 cards in OpenGL games like Doom 3 and Quake 4. The X1800 XT is now faster than GeForce 7800 GTX, while the X1800 XL is faster than the GeForce 7800 GT in most cases. The article also includes GeForce 6800 Ultra/GT scores, including both in SLI. It's a pretty interesting read if you like graphical benchmarks." From the article: "A little over a week ago, rumors began spreading that ATI was working on a new tool that delivered substantially improved performance to their recently launched X1000 cards in OpenGL titles such as DOOM 3, Quake 4, and many others. Some reports claimed ATIs performance improved by up to 35% in these titles in 4xAA mode. Then, posts on Beyond3Ds forums and sites like Guru3D confirmed these rumors. So how did ATI pull this off?"

Comments

low end performance

[sycomonkey]

I wonder how well this game works on a Radeon 8500LE. I can play Doom 3 with the settings turned down a bit, so does it stand to reason that I could run this too?

Bought the game for an ATI 9600 xt, useless

[linzeal]

I can't even play the damn game at 800x600 without serious choppiness. With fraps I am getting under 20 fps in most cases dipping down to single digits pretty quickly. I think I am just going to sell the damn thing back on Amazon and forget about it till I can afford an x800 for 150 bucks or so in a year.

I wonder...

[stienman]

So, when is there going to be a NetBSD port to this graphics card?

-Adam