Apple Mac Upgrades - RAM, SSD Flash, External Drives and More

Quake 3 - Average Frames Per Second	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	FPS

Reference Apple Systems

PM G4/400 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	44.2
PM 2x G4/450 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM x2	0MB	90
PM G5/1.6GHz (800MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	158.8
PM G5/1.8GHz (900MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	182.4
PM G5/2x 2.0GHz (1GHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	262.7

Acceleration Cards

OWC Mercury Extreme G4/700MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	63.1
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/800MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	70.9
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/800MHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	76.1
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	80.5
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	82.9
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	81.9
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	90.3
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.2GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	89.9
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz (@ 1.3GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	94.7
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	98.7
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.467GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	98.2
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.4GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	96.9

Quake 3 testing - Frames Per Second. Longer bars are better. Set Quake's settings to HIGH QUALITY and only adjust the resolution to 1280x1024. - Nothing fancy, but repeatable honest scores. :>) If you want to tweak your config file for even more performance, you can get faster framerates (at the loss of some detail).