Performance in Quake 3: Arena

As you can clearly see, Leadtek WinFast A350 TDH loses more of its performance than VisionTek Xtasy 9800 PRO in the lowest resolution. However, the situation changes to the contrary further on: the faster memory subsystem helps Leadtek’s card out. Anyway, we have acceptable gaming performance everywhere, save for the FSAA 8x mode, which is too hard even for an old game like Quake 3. Moreover, you cannot enable this mode in 1600x1200 resolution, probably because the graphics memory is not enough for that. This is typical of nearly all games. All in all, this mode brings no significant visual advantages over the 4x FSAA mode, but does cause a dramatic performance hit.