ID Software Quake 4 1.3	Source: id Software

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! Each test is run three times and with the third run being recorded.

ID Software Quake 4 1.3 Custom Demo
HQ 1024x768	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	151.8
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	145.8
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	176.3
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	184
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	165.2
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	141.5
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD	186.5
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD 665/1066	187
HQ 1600x1200	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	135.9
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	118.3
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	172.7
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	164.1
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	116.2
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	95.1
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD	185.9
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD 665/1066	186.7
UQ 1024x768	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	150.9
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	130.6
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	178.1
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	179.8
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	143.8
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	137.1
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD	186.6
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD 665/1066	189.7
UQ 1600x1200	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	130.3
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	108
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	172.2
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	160.1
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	104.5
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	91.5
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD	185.7
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD 665/1066	189.6

Overclocking the MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD videocard does squat for performance in Quake 4. That is not much of a surprise if we consider that the system is pretty CPU limited. The GeForce 8800GTX performs nicely above that of the previous generation, however.