Quake II Performance

Quake2 Demo1
Voodoo2 SLI @ 1024x768
Pentium 3 - 560	81.0 fps
Pentium 3 - 500	77.1 fps
Celeron - 550A	80.2 fps
Pentium 2 - 500	76.6 fps
Pentium 2 - 450	73.1 fps
Pentium 2 - 400	72.2 fps
Celeron - 333	64.1 fps

Quake2 Demo1
Software Renderer @ 640x480
Pentium 3 - 560	39.2 fps
Pentium 3 - 500	37.2 fps
Celeron - 550A	36.3 fps
Pentium 2 - 500	36.4 fps
Pentium 2 - 450	34.1 fps
Pentium 2 - 400	32.2 fps
Celeron - 333	30.8 fps

Quake2 Crusher
Voodoo2 SLI @ 800x600
Pentium 3 - 560	54.5 fps
Pentium 3 - 500	51.2 fps
Celeron - 550A	52.0 fps
Pentium 2 - 500	50.1 fps
Pentium 2 - 450	49.3 fps
Pentium 2 - 400	48.4 fps
Celeron - 333	39.1 fps

Quake2 Crusher
Software Renderer @ 640x480
Pentium 3 - 560	23.3 fps
Pentium 3 - 500	21.7 fps
Celeron - 550A	22.0 fps
Pentium 2 - 500	20.2 fps
Pentium 2 - 450	18.1 fps
Pentium 2 - 400	16.7 fps
Celeron - 333	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.