AMD Athlon 1GHz, 950MHz, 900MHz

The situation in Quake III is a bit closer than in the previous two tests as the Athlon + DDR GeForce combination doesn't prove to be as fast as the same video card on an Intel platform. Because of this, the 1GHz Athlon is just slightly faster than the Pentium III 800 and the 950/900MHz parts fall behind by a few fps. If you factor the cost of the RDRAM on that test system into the equation then the next best thing is the Pentium III 800/100 on a BX platform which is just slightly outperformed by an Athlon 900.

The DDR GeForce is fill rate limited at 1024 x 768 x 32, so the scores are virtually identical to one another.