Battle at 500MHz: Athlon vs P3 vs Celeron

The true power of the Athlon's FPU is seen in the 3D Studio MAX tests where, clock for clock, it dominates the Pentium III offering performance on par with that of a dual Pentium III 500 system.   The benefits of the Pentium III's larger L2 cache can be seen here as well. 

* Time in seconds, lower is better