Quote Originally Posted by Stephen Coates View Post
Harrison, I'm sure my Pentium III will be much faster than a 333MHz Pentium II.
Your PIII was 500MHz wasn't it? Therefore you are correct Steve, your P3 is a whole 167MHz faster than that P2 333MHz machine!

In reality, yes the P3 chip was slightly more advanced than the P2, but is based on the same basic design but with better memory management. So the speed increase of a P3 500 compared to a P2 333 would probably be about twice the speed in real world tests.

But that would not half the benchmark times of the tests I mentioned to make it 25 times slower than the P4 due to the bigger differences in other factors such as complete architecture changes between early P3 500MHz machines and even the later P3's, and a complete redesign for the P4 and beyond. I would expect in a similar test the P3 500 would around 45 times slower than the P4, or there about.

And for the 3DSMax and Photoshop tests I expect the resulting times would be pretty close to the P2 tests unless a lot more ram was given to the P3 during its testing.