Intel Pentium III 1GHz

The situation under SYSMark 2000 is far from as close as it was under CC Winstone 2000. The SYSMark 2000 tests definitely benefit more from SSE and RDRAM than the CC Winstone 2000 tests did and it shows by the huge lead the Pentium III at 1GHz assumes over the 1GHz Athlon. Even the VIA 133A setup with the 1GHz Pentium III managed to pull ahead of the Athlon at 1GHz here.