First up, we have the "tried, tested and true" Quake III: Arena. We have used this benchmark over and over again here at OnePC.NET's test labs, and time and time again, it has given us a very clear image of the performance capabilities of the product at hand.

Upon first inspection, one might be very surprised at the results. While the GeForce2 MX400 has a clear lead over the rest of the cards, the more-than-2-year old TNT2 Pro managed to score a higher mark than the Radeon VE at 640x480 and 16-bit! We do, however, notice that the Radeon VE has a teeny tiny difference between the 16-bit and 32-bit marks.

Here, we see that the Radeon VE scores higher than the much-older TNT2 Pro--whew! Unfortunately, though, it's 16-bit scores are still closer to the TNT2's than the GeForce2 MX400's, while its 32-bit score again shows where the Radeon VE's strength lies.

Again, the same story here. The GeForce2 MX400 continues to take a commanding lead over all other cards, while the Radeon VE maintains a very little difference between 16-bit and 32-bit color-depths.

At the highest setting, both the Radeon VE and TNT2 Pro dip below the "playable" 30-FPS mark; however, where we see that both the NVIDIA cards obtain a HUGE performance loss with 32-bit color-depth, the difference, when it comes to the Radeon VE, is still negligable.

On to: Resolution Scaling