KryoTech's Cool Athlon 900 MHz

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Windows 98 - 3D Gaming Performance

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Dogath Moor Zoological Gardens	Header Cell - Column 1	Header Cell - Column 2	640x480x16	Header Cell - Column 4
Pentium III 500	55.9	Row 0 - Cell 2	Athlon 500	69.0
Pentium III 550	59.8	Row 1 - Cell 2	Athlon 550	69.6
Pentium III 600	63.3	Row 2 - Cell 2	Athlon 600	70.0
Pentium III 650	65.8	Row 3 - Cell 2	Athlon 650	70.1
Pentium III 533B	57.0	Row 4 - Cell 2	Athlon 700	70.2
Pentium III 600B	64.5	Row 5 - Cell 2	Athlon 750	70.2
Row 6 - Cell 0	Row 6 - Cell 1	Row 6 - Cell 2	KryoTech Cool Athlon 800	70.2
Row 7 - Cell 0	Row 7 - Cell 1	Row 7 - Cell 2	KryoTech Cool Athlon 900	70.2

The results scored with Athlon are more interesting from a GeForce-evaluation perspective than from a processor-performance stand point. You can see what several people feared, GeForce's T&L-unit is max'ed out. A card without integrated T&L but the same fill rate as GeForce would most likely score higher and of course you would see scores scaling with the processor performance. At the same time we can see that Pentium III does not reach the limit of GeForce's T&L, thus it's still scaling. This should give you a very good idea about Athlon's real 3D-performance. It's evidently way ahead of Pentium III and Pentium IIIB.

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Quake 3 Arena - 640x480x16	Header Cell - Column 1	Header Cell - Column 2	NORMAL - Q3DEMO1	Header Cell - Column 4
Pentium III 500	85.1	Row 0 - Cell 2	Athlon 500	94.3
Pentium III 550	91.7	Row 1 - Cell 2	Athlon 550	99.8
Pentium III 600	96.7	Row 2 - Cell 2	Athlon 600	105.5
Pentium III 650	102.4	Row 3 - Cell 2	Athlon 650	109.4
Pentium III 533B	88.4	Row 4 - Cell 2	Athlon 700	113.7
Pentium III 600B	96.1	Row 5 - Cell 2	Athlon 750	116.9
Row 6 - Cell 0	Row 6 - Cell 1	Row 6 - Cell 2	KryoTech Cool Athlon 800	120.7
Row 7 - Cell 0	Row 7 - Cell 1	Row 7 - Cell 2	KryoTech Cool Athlon 900	125.4

Q3 Arena enjoys the 900 MHz speed the KryoTech unit has to offer giving us the highest score of 125.4 FPS. Also, the slower 300 MHz L2 of the Athlon 900 MHz doesn't affect the CPU scaling much at all. Looking at those results and comparing them to the DMZG-scores makes one almost happy that Q3Test does not use GeForce's T&L-engine. However, we shouldn't forget that Q3Test uses a lot less polygons than DMZG.