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Last revised:
10/27/1999

AMD Athlon/550 vs. Intel Pentium III/550 Performance
Intel Celeron and Pentium III FC-PGA Performance
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Winbench 99 CPUMark/98SE
The graph above shows the raw processor performance of each CPU while running Windows 98SE. Even the slowest Pentium III/500 is almost twice as fast as the highest speed Celeron/533.

Winbench 99 CPUMark/NT
The same test under Windows NT is just as dramatic. The equation seems to be: Faster processor speed, faster FSB, and larger L2 cache = big performance boost.

Winbench 99 Business Graphics/98SE
The chart above shows the video performance under Windows 98SE for each processor. Again, the scores for the Pentium III processors are higher than the Celerons'.

Winbench 99 Highend Graphics/NT
And the last chart above shows the video performance under Windows NT. We see the results of the Pentium III are even better than Windows 98SE.

It's no surprise than the Coppermine Pentium III socket 370 processors are much faster than their Celeron counterparts. With higher clock speeds and double the amount of L2 cache, the Coppermine Pentium III sets a new level of performance for socket 370 based systems. And with the introduction of the Intel 810E chipset, which will support the higher 133MHz FSB, it's clear that Intel is serious about their socket design.

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