Quake III Arena tests OpenGL performance through the scientific use of a rail gun and gibbed body bits. It uses advanced features such as curved surfaces and high-polygon models to bring your video card to its knees. Max mode has the geometry and texture settings on their highest values.

In Normal mode, all of the GeForce MX and ATI cards match each other in performance. The small differences are unimportant since the test is clearly CPU limited on those cards. The Voodoo4 4500 falls behind by about 20fps and the G450 falls further behind, but still maintains over 60fps.

The ATI RADEON DDR is the champ of this test, beating out even the Hercules MX by a small margin. The RADEON SDR takes third place, followed by the rest of the GeForce2 MX cards. In fourth is the Voodoo4, which still manages to stay over 60fps. In a distant fifth place is the Matrox G450, which runs at half the speed of the next slowest card, the Voodoo4.