Windows 98 Results - 3D Games
The Dronez benchmark is one of NVIDIA's technology demos for GeForce3. It is using a lot of modern 3D-features, which makes it a very up-to-date kind of 3D-gaming benchmark. Here the difference between Thunderbird and Palomino is about 10%.
AquaMark is another GeForce3 tech demo and therefore another modern 3D-benchmark. The performance of Palomino is about 8% higher than the performance of Thunderbird.
Evolva does not show as much of a difference between Thunderbird and Palomino, but there's still a noticeable delta between the two Athlon 1.2 GHz processors.