3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 PCI

Quake III Arena- Celeron 433 (cont)

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At higher resolutions of Quake III, the CPU becomes less of a bottleneck for older cards as the video card starts to become the limiting factor. Here we see that the Voodoo5 5500 takes top place in 16-bit color as well as 32-bit. With power to spare still, the speed of the card is not very much less at these resolutions than in lower resolutions due to the CPU acting as the bottleneck. At 1600x1200x32, it seems that the Voodoo5 5500 becomes the bottleneck, as the frame rate drops significantly.