As a supplement to the Ziff Davis 3D Winbench 2000 CPU test, we've also thrown in MadOnion's 3D Mark CPU test from 3D Mark 2000 (run at 1024x768), which focuses on the floating-point-intensive 3D geometry portion of the graphics pipeline.

It's a close run thing at the 1GHz mark (401 for the Athlon and 397 for the Pentium III). Intel's newer 1.13GHz' and its extra “oomph” in the MHz department came out top with 436, which matches the expected 10% performance gain over the 1GHz Pentium III. A job well done here… The Athlon 1.1GHz also gets a decent bump in performance up to 372 (up from 350 on the 1GHz). The story is a little different in this test in comparison to the 3D Winbench 2000 T&L processor test is bested by the Athlon. Here the Pentium still reigns. That is until we start seeing more of those .dll's flying around no doubt.