The Quake III Arena Time Demo 1 is an OpenGL-based test. We set Lighting to Lightmap, Geometric detail to High, flares off, Vsync off, and used bilinear filtering. The Content Creation Winstone 2000 program measures a system's performance running best-selling applications used by content creators. The applications are Adobe Photoshop 5.0, Adobe Premiere 5.1, Macromedia Director 7, Macromedia Dream-weaver 2, Netscape Navigator 4.6, and Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 4.5. DVD CPU Utilization indicates the level of CPU work required when decoding a DVD movie and is a measure of the contribution of the graphics accelerator to the DVD decoding process.
Lower numbers indicate better performance by the graphics card.
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