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Return to Castle Wolfenstein - Average FPS	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	FPS

Reference Apple Systems

PM G4/400 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	23.5
PM 2x G4/450 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM x2	0MB	29
PM G5/1.6GHz (800MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	77.5
PM G5/1.8GHz (900MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	88.5
PM G5/2x 2.0GHz (1GHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	108.8

Acceleration Cards

OWC Mercury Extreme G4/700MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	32.3
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/800MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	34.1
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/800MHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	36.9
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	37.9
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	39.1
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	41
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	42.4
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.2GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	42.2
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz (@ 1.3GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	43.9
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	45.7
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.467GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	45.4
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.4GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	45.4

Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Frames per second. Longer bars are better Return to Castle Wolfenstein is an extremely well done first person shooter that brings back memories, all the way to the early years of the 80's when I played Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple II. We'll, it's come a long way, and it is one of the more fun games in recent times. All tests were performed using the default "high quality" settings, no config file trickery or any unusual enhancements were performed generating these scores. Standard TimeDemo routines used.