Quake II Performance
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Quake2 Demo1
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Voodoo2 SLI @ 1024x768 |
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Pentium 3 - 560
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81.0 fps |
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Pentium 3 - 500
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77.1 fps |
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Celeron - 550A
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80.2 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 500
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76.6 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 450
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73.1 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 400
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72.2 fps |
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Celeron - 333
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64.1 fps |
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Quake2 Demo1
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Software Renderer @ 640x480 |
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Pentium 3 - 560
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39.2 fps |
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Pentium 3 - 500
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37.2 fps |
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Celeron - 550A
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36.3 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 500
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36.4 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 450
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34.1 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 400
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32.2 fps |
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Celeron - 333
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30.8 fps |
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Quake2 Crusher
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Voodoo2 SLI @ 800x600 |
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Pentium 3 - 560
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54.5 fps |
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Pentium 3 - 500
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51.2 fps |
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Celeron - 550A
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52.0 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 500
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50.1 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 450
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49.3 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 400
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48.4 fps |
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Celeron - 333
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39.1 fps |
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Quake2 Crusher
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Software Renderer @ 640x480 |
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Pentium 3 - 560
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23.3 fps |
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Pentium 3 - 500
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21.7 fps |
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Celeron - 550A
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22.0 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 500
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20.2 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 450
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18.1 fps |
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Pentium 2 - 400
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16.7 fps |
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Celeron - 333
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12.4 fps |
It's clear that the Pentium III runs basically MHz for MHz with the
rest of the Intel family. It's consistently faster than a Pentium II at the same speed,
but a Celeron 366 overclocked to 550MHz can beat out the P3 500, and comes close
to matching the performance of the Pentium III 560 -- All this, for hundreds of dollars less.
Of course, you don't get SSE with the Celeron. As our reports have shown, there can be
significant performance increases using SSE technology. However, time will tell exactly how much
of an advantage the
P3 will accumulate over its "unaccelerated" brethren.