Apple Mac Upgrades - RAM, SSD Flash, External Drives and More

Quake 3 - Average Frames Per Second	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	FPS

Reference Apple Systems

PM G4/400 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	44.2
PM 2x G4/450 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM x2	0MB	90
Apple eMac G4/700	256k On Chip	0MB	36.7
Apple iMac G4/700 15"	256k On Chip	0MB	58
iMac 1GHz (167MHz Bus, 768MB RAM, GF4MX 32MB)	256k	0MB	88.2
PB G4 17" 1.33GHz (167MHz Bus, 512MB RAM, R9600 64MB)	512k On Chip	0MB	n/a
PM G5/1.6GHz (800MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	158.8
PM G5/1.8GHz (900MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	182.4
PM G5/2x 2.0GHz (1GHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	262.7

Acceleration Cards

OWC Mercury Extreme G4/700MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	63.1
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/800MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	70.9
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/800MHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	76.1
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	80.5
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	82.9
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	81.9
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	90.3
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.2GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	89.9
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz (@ 1.3GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	94.7
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	98.7
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.467GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	98.2
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.4GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	96.9
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.0GHz @ 1.2GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	168.3
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.2GHz @ 1.3GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	177.1
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.2GHz @ 1.4GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	196.8

Quake 3 testing - Frames Per Second. Longer bars are better. Set Quake's settings to HIGH QUALITY and only adjust the resolution to 1280x1024. - Nothing fancy, but repeatable honest scores. :>) If you want to tweak your config file for even more performance, you can get faster framerates (at the loss of some detail).