AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1 GHz / 800 MHz

UnrealTournament definitely goes to the Thunderbird. Prior to the Thunderbird's release the Pentium III on the 820 platform easily dominated the UnrealTournament tests, as you can tell by the above graph even the Pentium III on the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset manages to beat out the original Athlon running at 1GHz on a KX133. Simply moving to the Thunderbird + KT133 platform results in an 11% improvement in performance which is definitely noticeable during normal gameplay.

While the GeForce 2 GTS still fails to be a overly limiting factor even at 1024 x 768 x 32, the added memory bandwidth and fill rate required to drive frame rates above 60 fps in this test help to take down the Thunderbird's performance advantage over the original Athlon to around 8%.