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

Reference Apple Systems

PM G4/466MHz Digital Audio	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	57
PM G4/2x 533MHz Digital Audio	1MB SPB SRAM x2	0MB	114.2
PM G4/667MHz Digital Audio	0MB	1MB DDR SDRAM	64.8
iMac 1GHz (167MHz, 768MB, GF4MX 32MB)	256k	0MB	88.2
PB G4 17" 1.33GHz (167MHz, 512MB, R9600 64MB)	512k On Chip	0MB	n/a
PM G4/2x 1.25GHz FW800	256k	2x1MB DDR SDRAM	207.3
PM G4/2x 1.42GHz FW800	256k	2x2MB DDR SDRAM	230.9
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 G4/800MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	79.9
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/800MHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	83
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	94.1
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	94.3
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.2GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	105.4
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	108.4
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.25GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	108.7
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	113.2
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.4GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	116.4
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz @ 1.467GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	119
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.467GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	119.2
PowerLogix PowerForce Dual G4 2x1.2GHz (7457)	512k x2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	211.6

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).