What About The Performance?

07:00 - Wednesday 20 October 1999 by Brent Kerby
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: kryotech

What About The Performance?

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We ran a variety of processors from Intel and AMD through our test suite so we could check out how all of the CPU's scale and find out how the KryoTech 900MHz Athlon would perform when teamed up with NVIDIA's GeForce 256 DDR based graphics board. The business application performance suite includes Windows 98 testing with BAPCo's SYSmark98, and Windows NT with both SYSmark98 & 3D StudioMax. The gaming suite includes Quake 3 Arena and Dogath Moor Zoological Gardens. Both of the game titles were run at 640x480x16 to try and keep the video board from becoming the bottleneck.

Windows 98 - Business Application Performance

SYSMark98 - Win98SE        
Pentium III 500 211   Athlon 500 237
Pentium III 550 228   Athlon 550 253
Pentium III 600 245   Athlon 600 270
Pentium III 650 262   Athlon 650 287
Pentium III 533B 217   Athlon 700 300
Pentium III 600B 245   Athlon 750 313
      KryoTech Cool Athlon 800 328
      KryoTech Cool Athlon 900 339

SYSmark98 under Windows 98 shows the KryoTech units in the lead. However, you can see that the slower cache speed of the 900MHz Athlon causes the slope between 800 and 900MHz to flatten out. Still, the 339 SYSmark98 score under Win98 is the fastest we've seen with this setup and it's 38.3% faster than a Pentium 600B in a still not even released i820-platform.


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