Intel Pentium III 800 & 750 "Coppermine"

ZD's Content Creation Winstone 2000 taxes the system in a much more effective way than the old Business Winstone 99 used to. The result is a more accurate representation of overall system performance under content creation applications. In spite of its slower L2 cache, the Athlon 800 manages to pull ahead of the pack by a small margin. In this test, the Athlon seems to hold its ground above the Pentium III on a clock for clock basis, although in some cases not by a large performance advantage.

SYSMark 2000, unlike its predecessor SYSMark 98, features more up to date versions of the applications included in the benchmark. Many of them happen to boast SSE optimizations that help keep Intel's measurable but not noticeable advantage over AMD.

While this last benchmark isn't a real world test, we decided to include it as a sort of "drool-inducer" for the members of Team AnandTech, our very own RC5 cracking team. The Athlon 800 will be cracking for us in the lab as soon as this is published ;)