All those benchmarks between the $700-$900 cpu's are Olympic games - spectacular, but unrelated to our life.
The real chips that came are 90 nm A64 3000, which is $179, and the $215 3200 one. The Intel contestant must be the $192 3.2 Ghz. Yes, the P4 3.2 Ghz is well cheaper than A64 3200, c'est la vie.