KryoTech's Cool Athlon 900 MHz

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Windows NT - Business Application Performance

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SYSMark98 - WinNT SP5 Header Cell - Column 1 Header Cell - Column 2 Header Cell - Column 3 Header Cell - Column 4
Pentium III 500 229 Row 0 - Cell 2 Athlon 500 257
Pentium III 550 247 Row 1 - Cell 2 Athlon 550 275
Pentium III 600 268 Row 2 - Cell 2 Athlon 600 292
Pentium III 650 280 Row 3 - Cell 2 Athlon 650 306
Pentium III 533B 239 Row 4 - Cell 2 Athlon 700 319
Pentium III 600B 268 Row 5 - Cell 2 Athlon 750 333
Row 6 - Cell 0 Row 6 - Cell 1 Row 6 - Cell 2 KryoTech Cool Athlon 800 347
Row 7 - Cell 0 Row 7 - Cell 1 Row 7 - Cell 2 KryoTech Cool Athlon 900 371

Running SYSmark98 under Windows NT shows the Athlon 900 MHz scaling much better. NT is using the L2-cache mor effinciently, so that the slower L2 cache speed of the Athlon 900 MHz doesn't seem to affect the scores as much as under Windows 98. Again, the 371 SYSmark98 result produced by the KryoTech Athlon 900 is the fastest we've seen and it's some whopping 38.5 % faster than the fastest official Intel system.

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3DStudioMAX - WinNT SP5 Header Cell - Column 1 Header Cell - Column 2 (Pictures Rendered per/hour) Header Cell - Column 4
Pentium III 500 56 Row 0 - Cell 2 Athlon 500 68
Pentium III 550 52 Row 1 - Cell 2 Athlon 550 75
Pentium III 600 57 Row 2 - Cell 2 Athlon 600 82
Pentium III 650 62 Row 3 - Cell 2 Athlon 650 88
Pentium III 533B 50 Row 4 - Cell 2 Athlon 700 95
Pentium III 600B 56 Row 5 - Cell 2 Athlon 750 103
Row 6 - Cell 0 Row 6 - Cell 1 Row 6 - Cell 2 KryoTech Cool Athlon 800 109
Row 7 - Cell 0 Row 7 - Cell 1 Row 7 - Cell 2 KryoTech Cool Athlon 900 120

In this floating-point intensive application the Athlon scales perfectly. The KryoTech 900 MHz is able to crunch the numbers and render over 120 pictures per/hour! It's obvious that the L2 cache speed difference between the 800 and 900 MHz Athlon has no adverse performance affects with the 3DstudioMax application. For a single Pentium III to match the floating-point power of the 900 MHz Athlon would require it to run over 1.2 GHz! The Cool Athlon 900 scores 114% higher than the Pentium 600B. I understand that Intel must be really scared about that.