ZDBop's 3D Winbench 2000 CPU Integer test really stresses the L2 cache of the CPU and best serves to demonstrate the speed of its internal processing measuring the CPU-intensive portion of the 3D graphics pipeline. Over the past year, the Pentium III Coppermine has shown just how scaleable its architecture is in this test (please refer back to our earlier Pentium III reviews). The Athlon 1GHz (with the “Thunderbird” core) was already not too far behind at 1.8. But with AMD's newest family member, the 1.1GHz scaling so well that it actually pips the 1.13 Pentium III, we have a new leader. The score of 2.24 under Windows 98 is the fastest yet (beating the previous best of 2.11 by the 1.13GHz Pentium III). Since AMD added the on-die L2 cache, they can now enjoy a greater level of scalabilty. Under Windows 2000, the test results were quite a different story. There the 1.1GHz Athlon was pipped by the Pentium III 1.13GHz.