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Marine Aquarium - Frames per second

Processor	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	Video Card	VRAM	Score
Stock Apple G4/733MHz	256k	0MB L3	ATI RAGE 128	16MB	53
Stock Apple G4/733MHz	256k	0MB L3	nVidia GeForce4MX	32MB	96
Stock Apple G4/733MHz	256k	0MB L3	nVidia GeForce4Ti	128MB	124
Stock Apple G4/733MHz	256k	0MB L3	ATI RADEON 8500	64MB	124
Stock Apple G4/733MHz	256k	0MB L3	ATI RADEON 9000	64MB	123

GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	ATI RAGE 128	16MB	55
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	nVidia GeForce4MX	32MB	96
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	nVidia GeForce4Ti	128MB	166
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	ATI RADEON 8500	64MB	140
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	ATI RADEON 9000	64MB	121

OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	ATI RAGE 128	16MB	54
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	nVidia GeForce4MX	32MB	97
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	nVidia GeForce4Ti	128MB	199
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	ATI RADEON 8500	64MB	142
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	ATI RADEON 9000	64MB	123

Marine Aquarium Screensaver - Frames per second, longer bars are better.

Marine Aquarium is a shareware program by SereneScreen that has become very popular, as long as you like fish tanks. This is a pretty simple test, just run the screen saver with 8 random fish, automatic lighting off, and bubbles off. After just a few moments of activity the FPS counter will stabilize and that's the average I used. In repeated testing, this was very accurate.