http://www.theinquirer.net/25080103.htm

here's how an athlon 1.4 stacks up against a p4 2ghz:

PovRay 3.1 (pixel per second)
P4,2gigasus P4t: 1052
P4,1.8gig(asus P4t): 972
K7,1.4gig(A7v266): 1129

LinuxKernel(2.4)
make -j4 [s]
p4-2gig: 6886
p4-1.8: 6391
k7-1.4: 8093

BAPCo SYSmark2000
p4-2gig: 234
p4-1.8: 218
k7-1.4: 248


there are waaaay more benchmarks than that but they can't be shown.

read it! Athlon 0wnz j00