Kryotech SuperG Athlon 1000MHz

BAPCo's SYSMark 2000 features up-to-date versions of CorelDRAW 9, Microsoft Excel 2000, Dragon Systems NaturallySpeaking Preferred 4.0, Netscape Communicator 4.61, Corel Paradox 9, Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, Microsoft Word 2000, MetaCreations Bryce 4, Avid Elastic Reality 3.1, Adobe Photoshop 5.5, Adobe Premiere 5.1, and Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 4.0. The SSE SIMD FP optimizations in these applications coupled with the Pentium III's full speed on-die L2 cache help keep the Pentium III at 800MHz virtually on the heels of the SuperG Athlon at 1GHz.

The SuperG is the fastest, although not by a huge margin, in this test. It is noticeably faster than the previous Athlon king, the 800, but it should be noted that the Athlon in its current form (with the K75 core) will most likely never hit an air-cooled 1GHz clock speed. Instead, the first 1GHz Athlon will probably based on a core with a full-speed on-die L2 such as the Thunderbird or Spitfire.

The SuperG enjoys a similar lead over the competition in the Content Creation Winstone 2000 test, although it is followed up by the Athlon 800 rather than the Pentium III 800.

Once again, although the SuperG is the current fastest processor in this test this performance is not indicative of the air-cooled 1GHz Athlon that will ship next year. The air-cooled 1GHz Athlon should be noticeably faster due to its faster L2 cache speed and other possible optimizations.