The New VIA Cyrix III: The Worlds First 0.15 Micron x86 CPU

Gaming Performance - MDK2 - Win98SE

If it was not clear enough in our Quake III Arena tests, the MDK2 benchmark reinforces the fact that the Cyrix III is not a gamer's friend. At 640x480x32, the Cyrix III 667 MHz performs 29% slower than the Celeron 566 MHz and 75% slower than the Duron 600 MHz.

The results of testing MDK2 at 1024x768x32 remain nearly unchanged from the scores at 640x480x32, suggesting a CPU limitation in all cases but the Duron.