The Performance of the Intel Pentium II
The Pentium II has now to compete against two CPUs. It's older brother the Pentium Pro, which has the advantage of an internal 2nd level cache and the new AMD K6, which has been showing to be a worthy competitor against even the high end Intel CPUs.
The Windows 95 Performance of the Pentium II
WINDOWS 95 |
Pentium II 300 |
Pentium II 266 |
Pentium II 233 |
Pentium Pro 200 |
K6 233 |
K6 200 |
K6 166 |
Pentium MMX 200 |
Business Winstone 97 |
64.5 |
60.9 |
57.8 |
52.4 |
55.3 |
51.9 |
48.6 |
50.2 |
Highend Winstone 97 |
31.7 |
29.8 |
27.8 |
24.8 |
23.6 |
22.2 |
20.1 |
22.4 |
Business Winmark 97 |
124 |
107 |
103 |
84.2 |
98.1 |
89.7 |
78.5 |
91.4 |
WinQuake 1.09 Timedemo2 640x480 |
32.7 |
30.0 |
27.0 |
23.4 |
15.5 |
13.9 |
12.6 |
15.9 |
The Windows 95 performance is the only sector where the lead of the Pentium II isn't that all clear. The Pentium II 233 is only a little bit faster than the AMD K6 233, but the faster clock speeds are still far above any competition. However here in this sector the Pentium II could be defeated by a improved K6 as well as the upcoming M2. It will stay interesting for Windows 95 users.