New CPUs from AMD and Intel

The Numbers

Before I am boring you with even more theory, I rather get into the hard benchmarking data. The test systems were equipped with the following:

AMD K6-3 And K6-2 System

• Motherboard Asus P5A, BIOS 1005
• 128 MB PC100 SDRAM
• Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI host adapter
• IBM DGVS 09U SCSI hard drive
• Asus V3400TNT graphics card, running with fast memory timings and NVIDIA reference driver 1.06 ('Detonator')

Intel Pentium III, Pentium II And Celeron System

• Motherboard Asus P2B, BIOS 1008 beta 3
• 128 MB PC100 SDRAM
• Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI host adapter
• IBM DGVS 09U SCSI hard drive
• Asus V3400TNT graphics card, running with fast memory timings and NVIDIA reference driver 1.06 ('Detonator')

Winstone99 and 3D Winbench99 ran at 1024x768x16bit color, 85 Hz refresh rate.

Quake 2 ran at 1024x768x16bit color and 85 Hz refresh rate, version 3.20, for K6-3 and K6-2 version 3.19 with 3DNow! Quake two patch.
Shogo ran at 1024x768x16bit color, 85 Hz refresh rate, version 2.1, demo 'tomsdemo' recorded by myself.
Photoshop 5 ran at 1024x768x16bit color, 85 Hz refresh rate.
3Dmark99 ran at 1024x768x16bit color, 85 Hz refresh rate, triple buffering enabled.
3DstudioMax 1.2 rendered the file 'ktx_rays.max' at 640x480.
Naturally Speaking, Netshow Encoder and Photoshop 5 were benchmarked using Intel's 'Application Launcher' software.
For K6-3 third level comparison FIC PA-2013 motherboards were used.
The file system was FAT16.
For Windows NT benchmarks the server version of Windows NT 4 with service pack 4 was used.