The new 3D Winbench 2000 CPU Integer test really stresses the L2 cache of the CPU and best serves to demonstrate the speed of its internal processing. While the Pentium III Coppermine steals the show here, the Celeron 700 demonstrates serious advantages over the older Celeron design. The Coppermine lineage of the Celeron 600 and its improved L2 cache are the main reason for the increased scores. The Duron and Celeron are virtually neck and neck (the Duron pips the Celeron by 0.2) in this important test.
The tests here warrant attention because complex Adobe PhotoShop 5.0, Adobe Premiere 5.1, Macromedia Director 7.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver 2.0, Netscape Navigator 4.6 and Sonic Foundry Sound Forge scripts are run. All of these have 'hot spots', as ZD likes to call them that truly test the system, but the CPU especially. Think of this benchmark as the "Crusher" ZD-equivalent test, which pushes real world programs to their limits (as opposed to Quake II timedemo1) on a system level.
When using the Celeron 700 on a BX platform the gap between it and the Duron is slightly greater than with a 815. It's only a marginal difference but there is one there nonetheless.