Quake 4	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.

Quake 4 Custom Demo:
HQ 1024x768	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX/2DHTV/512M/A	138.7
MSI RX1800XT-VT2D512E	136.5
Gigabyte GV-RX18L256V-B	130.1
ATi Radeon X850 XT PE	128.6
MSI RX800XT-VTD256E	124.3
ATi Radeon X800 XL	120.9
PowerColor X700 Pro	83.9
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D512E	141.6
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (Single)	142.5
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (SLI Mode)	141.8
Asus EN7800GT 2DHTV/256M/OSP/A (Single)	138.6
Asus EN7800GT 2DHTV/256M/OSP/A (SLI Mode)	141.8
MSI NX6800GT-T2D256E	128.1
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (Single)	114.3
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (SLI Mode)	133
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	141.1
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E (702/1772)	141.4
HQ 1600x1200	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX/2DHTV/512M/A	125.9
MSI RX1800XT-VT2D512E	119.8
Gigabyte GV-RX18L256V-B	106.4
ATi Radeon X850 XT PE	100.7
MSI RX800XT-VTD256E	93.6
ATi Radeon X800 XL	86.5
PowerColor X700 Pro	45
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D512E	128.3
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (Single)	124.6
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (SLI Mode)	137.6
Asus EN7800GT 2DHTV/256M/OSP/A (Single)	120.1
Asus EN7800GT 2DHTV/256M/OSP/A (SLI Mode)	136.1
MSI NX6800GT-T2D256E	93.8
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (Single)	70.6
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (SLI Mode)	111.2
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	134.2
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E (702/1772)	135.8
UQ 1024x768	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX/2DHTV/512M/A	133.9
MSI RX1800XT-VT2D512E	133.2
Gigabyte GV-RX18L256V-B	121.1
ATi Radeon X850 XT PE	119.9
MSI RX800XT-VTD256E	113.6
ATi Radeon X800 XL	108.4
PowerColor X700 Pro	61.6
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D512E	133.2
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (Single)	130.3
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (SLI Mode)	131
Asus EN7800GT 2DHTV/256M/OSP/A (Single)	129.4
Asus EN7800GT 2DHTV/256M/OSP/A (SLI Mode)	131.1
MSI NX6800GT-T2D256E	113.5
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (Single)	96
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (SLI Mode)	113.9
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	140.3
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E (702/1772)	140.9
UQ 1600x1200	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX/2DHTV/512M/A	118.8
MSI RX1800XT-VT2D512E	112.1
Gigabyte GV-RX18L256V-B	92.9
ATi Radeon X850 XT PE	87.1
MSI RX800XT-VTD256E	76.9
ATi Radeon X800 XL	73.3
PowerColor X700 Pro	32.4
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D512E	124.7
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (Single)	112.6
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (SLI Mode)	125.9
Asus EN7800GT 2DHTV/256M/OSP/A (Single)	107
Asus EN7800GT 2DHTV/256M/OSP/A (SLI Mode)	124
MSI NX6800GT-T2D256E	81.3
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (Single)	58.7
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (SLI Mode)	83.7
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	133.7
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E (702/1772)	134.8

The framerates are different from previous reviews because a new Quake 4 demo is now being used. These results are not comparable to past reviews.

Quake 4 acts very much like Doom 3, it appears to play better with nVIDIA GPUs than ATi's. The MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E is very fast, it outperforms everything except two 7800GTX 256MB videocards in SLI, in high quality mode.