The Test

Taken from our AMD Athlon 800 Review

This review wasn't intended to be a massive CPU roundup, rather a comparison of 700MHz+ Athlon processors amongst themselves as well as to their Pentium III counterparts. For more Athlon performance scores visit our previous CPU reviews.

Windows 98 SE Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

Intel Pentium III 750
Intel Pentium III 700

Intel Pentium III 800
AMD Athlon 800
AMD Athlon 750
AMD Athlon 700
Motherboard(s)
AOpen AX6BC Pro-II
AOpen AX6C
Gigabyte GA-7IX
Memory

128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM

128MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM
128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM
Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB (default clock - 120/166)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Ultra 32MB (default clock - 150/183)

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows 98 SE

Video Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce 256 - Detonator 3.65 @ 1024 x 768 x 16
NVIDIA Riva TNT2 - Detonator 3.65 @ 1024 x 768 x 16

Benchmarking Applications

Gaming

GT Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.04 UTbench.dem
idSoftware Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
MadOnion 3DMark 2000
Rage Software Expendable Timedemo

Synthetic
Distributed.net RC5 Client CSC Cracking Test
Productivity
BAPCo SYSMark 98
BAPCo SYSMark 2000
Ziff Davis Content Creation Winstone 2000

 

Windows NT SP6 Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

Intel Pentium III 750
Intel Pentium III 700

Intel Pentium III 800
AMD Athlon 800
AMD Athlon 750
AMD Athlon 700
Motherboard(s)
AOpen AX6BC Pro-II
AOpen AX6C
Gigabyte GA-7IX
Memory

128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM

128MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM
128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM
Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB (default clock - 120/166)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Ultra 32MB (default clock - 150/183)

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows 98 SE

Video Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce 256 - Detonator 3.65 @ 1024 x 768 x 32
NVIDIA Riva TNT2 - Detonator 3.65 @ 1024 x 768 x 32

Benchmarking Applications

Professional
3D Studio MAX R2
SPECviewperf 6.1.1
Productivity
BAPCo SYSMark 98
Ziff Davis Content Creation Winstone 2000
The Coppermine Confusion Content Creation Performance - Win98SE
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