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

Gaming Performance - UnrealTournament - Win98SE

Unreal Tournament is a very texture intensive game, meaning that the memory bus of a system is placed under considerable stress.

Unfortunately, the Cyrix III's 133 MHz memory bus does not make up for its poor performance. Even when compared to the lower clocked Celeron which is limited to a 66 MHz memory bus, the Celeron still comes out on top. This time the difference is 16%.

The scores remain similar in all cases when going from 640x480x32 to 1024x768x32. Here the Cyrix III is beat by the Celeron by 17%.