Battle at 500MHz: Athlon vs P3 vs Celeron

Half Life is a very CPU dependent game and using it's Direct3D mode we are able to compare the three processors in another demanding environment.  The results are similar to the Quake 3 results with the Athlon 500 coming out on top, followed by the Pentium III and Celeron, which scored a few percentage points of each other. 

As we learned in our September 1999 Desktop CPU Comparison, Expendable produced very close results between the Pentium III and Athlon platforms but the Athlon has the edge once again over its Intel competitor.