Here we see a clear dividing line between the older BX setup and the newer contenders. Memory and system bus bandwidth play a very important role in the Expendable benchmark and thus we see the narrow victory of the Athlon 800 over the Pentium III 800 on an i820/RDRAM platform; and the noticeable performance lead of all three Athlons and the single i820 test system over the two BX setups.
The Athlon holds the lead here as well.
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xrror - Friday, December 12, 2014 - link
The thing to remember during this era is that coppermine P3's (or at least, any P3 with integrated cache) were pretty much stupid expensive, and unobtanium to get. While with the Athlon 800 you could actually buy one and not be on a wait list for 2 months.Also ugh, RAMBUS and 820 were just way too much money. BX @ 133 with a video card that could handle it - which Geforce 2 era cards started to be built for that was where it was at if you were Intel. Or you just waited like everyone else for the Athlon Thunderbird to come out... =)