Quake III
Quake III isn't all that new, yet it's played by a large cross-section of the games-playing community. It's comparatively simple architecture and tight coding should make it play well on modest midrange cards.
282FPS trails the next lowest score by over 50FPS. It's still damn fast.
Raising the image bar still allows for a decent, usable FPS.
And here we see a reversal of midrange fortunes. The FX 5600 Ultra took the Tyan to task in 3DMark 2001SE, but here it falls behind. We'd take a Quake III average FPS over a synthetic benchmark's score each and every time. This result is a little surprising, given that the Tyan G9600 Pro is giving over 3GB/s of potential bandwidth away to the FX 5600U. The image examination pictures show that both cards appear to produce similar, comparable images.
