Battle at 500MHz: Athlon vs P3 vs Celeron

It's no surprise that the business application performance of the three CPUs is very similar and much less of a factor than it used to be back when L2 cache operated outside of the CPU clock frequency.   All three chips are winners here.

The SYSMark 98 suite combines many more benchmarks into the test including a few 3D rendering applications and some more content creation applications (Click here for detailed descriptions of all of the tests run) and thus tilts the performance in favor of the Athlon.