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To: Petz who wrote (202289)	6/15/2006 6:22:41 AM
From: eracer	Respond to of 275872

Re: Well that doesn't explain it. Anand used higher resolutions, therefore performance should have been GPU, not CPU limited. Something else must explain it. The difference in Quake 4 is probably in the video cards and quality settings. Tweaktown and Hardinfo used 256MB 7800GTX cards in their reviews and Ultra Quality settings, while Anandtech used a 512MB 7900GTX and High Quality. Ultra Quality is only recommended for 512MB cards due to the lack of texture compression. Even at 640x480 the Hardinfo and Tweaktown Quake 4 benchmarks could have been graphics bound to a degree with the video card needing to use some system memory.