Battle at 500MHz: Athlon vs P3 vs Celeron

Quake 2's crusher.dm2 demo is still a powerful way of conveying gaming performance as the test taxes most systems quite heavily.  Even the powerful Athlon 500 only pulls away with just under 60 fps in this demo at 1024 x 768.

The Quake 3 test demo restates the fact that the Athlon has a superior FPU than both of the competing Intel parts, but at the same time it also indicates that the difference in gaming performance between the Celeron 500 and the Pentium III 500 is minimal.  Definitely not worth the difference in cost.