Intel Pentium III-500 Benchmark
I tested the Pentium III-500 at rated speed
and at 620Mhz using the following equipment:
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Intel PIII-500 CPU
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Abit BX6-2 Motherboard
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In Win Q500 24" ATX Case With 250
Watts PS
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128 Megs Microm PC-125 Ram
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Delta 40X CD Rom
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Seagate Medalist Pro 6.5 Gig 7200RPM
Hard Drive
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Diamond Viper V770 Ultra Video card
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Sound Blaster Live Value
I used Quake 2, Unreal and 3D Mark 99 Max as
the benchmarks. All tests were run 3 times and the average score is shown. All
drivers were the latest ones from the manufacturers. The Viper V770 Ultra
running at its stock 150/183 speed. Vsync was turned off. No tweaks or special
cfg files were used. 3D Mark 99 Max was ran at 800x600, 16 bit color, 16 bit
Z-Buffer, Triple Frame Buffer.
Pentium III 500 at 500Mhz
| Benchmark Type |
Score |
| Quake 2 Demo1 800x600 |
65.5 |
| Quake 2 Demo1 1024x768 |
43.5 |
| Quake 2 Crusher 800x600 |
44.2 |
| Quake 2 Crusher 1024x768 |
41.7 |
| Unreal 800x600 |
44.2 |
| Unreal 1024x768 |
41.7 |
| 3D Mark 99 Max 800x600 |
4968 |
| CPU Mark 99 Max 800x600 |
7612 |
These benchmarks shows why so many gamers on a budget use
Celerons. With the exception of the 3D Mark 99 score, a Celeron 466 overclocked
to 525 can match these scores for way less money.
So why would you spend the extra bucks on a Pentium III?
Because a PIII-500 can overclock much higher than a Celeron 466. The next set of
benchmark were made to show what a PIII-500 can really do.
I overclocked the Pentium III to 620Mhz and overclocked
the Viper 770 Ultra to 185Mhz core and 243Mhz memory.
PIII-500 at 620Mhz
|
Benchmark Type |
Score |
| Quake 2 Demo1
800x600 |
125.9 |
| Quake 2 Demo1
1024x768 |
85.2 |
| Quake 2 Crusher
800x600 |
80.9 |
| Quake 2 Crusher
1024x768 |
72.8 |
| Unreal Timedemo
800x600 |
60.5 |
| Unreal Timedemo
1024x768 |
51.9 |
| 3D Mark 99 Max
800x600 |
6297 |
| 3D Mark 99 CPU
Mark |
9662 |
Now that's more like it! At 620Mhz, the CPU is not the
bottleneck in the system. The video card is! TNT2 cards max out at around
500Mhz. Increasing the CPU speed after that doesn't improve the benchmarks by
much (except for 3D Mark 99).
I confirm this by running a Quake 2 timedemo at 1024x768
at 500Mhz with the V770 clocked to 185/243 and got 85 frames per second. Just .2
frames per second less than the CPU running at 620Mhz. I guess I'll have to wait
for NV10 or Voodoo 4 to see how much power 620Mhz can really deliver in games.
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