The results scored with Athlon are more interesting from a GeForce-evaluation perspective than from a processor-performance stand point. You can see what several people feared, GeForce's T&L-unit is max'ed out. A card without integrated T&L but the same fill rate as GeForce would most likely score higher and of course you would see scores scaling with the processor performance. At the same time we can see that Pentium III does not reach the limit of GeForce's T&L, thus it's still scaling. This should give you a very good idea about Athlon's real 3D-performance. It's evidently way ahead of Pentium III and Pentium IIIB.

Q3 Arena enjoys the 900MHz speed the KryoTech unit has to offer giving us the highest score of 125.4 FPS. Also, the slower 300MHz L2 of the Athlon 900MHz doesn't affect the CPU scaling much at all. Looking at those results and comparing them to the DMZG-scores makes one almost happy that Q3Test does not use GeForce's T&L-engine. However, we shouldn't forget that Q3Test uses a lot less polygons than DMZG.