Windows 98 - 3D Gaming Performance
| 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.
| 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.
