Winbench Benchmarks

The K6-3 has always had a reputation for being "not quite the CPU the Pentium II/III is," but tests have always shown how it more than holds its own in integer tests. Here, we can see that it is so - the K6 matches the performance of the Athlon. Both Pentium III machines are significantly outmatched. Here's the first sign of 7th-generation performance!

Here we can see a flip-flop. AMD's prior flagship processor, the K6-3, falls flat on its face in FPUMark. Both Pentium III machines enjoy a sizable lead, but the Athlon again easily takes the lead. AMD is claiming that the Athlon represents the fastest x86 processor ever, and thus has been pushing for vastly improved floating point performance. With 3 fully-pipelined FPU units, the Athlon takes the crown in this synthetic test as well.

This is one of the first direct tests of ATA66 we've run. As you can see, Athlon ATA66 offers significant performance over the same system connected to that ATA33 header. Business diskmark measure hard drive performance, and again, the Athlon wins over the Pentium III 560. Intel is due to release P3-600 later in the summer, before moving to .18um Coppermine P3. While this test is closer than some of the others we've run, it looks like Athlon will be able to hold its lead MHz for MHz.