Another good system level benchmark that we've used before and are doing so again is Bapco's SYSMark 2000. The benchmark offers a strong set of twelve application benchmarks covering a wide range of Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity application categories. According to Bapco, the strength of SYSMark 2000 lies in its workloads, which reflect actual usage of real applications within the new computing paradigms.

Our SYSMark 2000 scores land right where we'd expect for a new speed grade of an existing product. Celeron scores lag due in part to a 66MHz bus as opposed to the PC133 KT platform used in conjunction with the Duron. Rumor is that the Celeron will see a 100MHz FSB upgrade sometime next year, but for the time being, AMD's Duron takes home first prize in performance.