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Intel Celeron D: New, Improved & Exceeds Expectations

Date: June 24th, 2004
Topic: CPU & Chipset
Manufacturer: Intel
Author: Derek Wilson

Celeron D vs. Celeron

As the following graph shows, over all our benchmarks, the new Celeron D outperforms the Northwood based Celeron even when clock speeds and FSB speeds are equal. This leaves only the core improvements and extra L1/L2 cache as variables in performance difference.

We would be happy with a small performance increase considering we first expected a performance drop. Of course, the reality is that most of our benchmarks see more than 10% performance increases (with one improving over 25%).

For these benchmarks, both the Celeron D and the Celeron were run at a 100 MHz FSB with a 20x multiplier.

We definitely didn't see numbers like this when comparing Pentium 4 E to Northwood. But enough ado about this. Now let's see how Intel's new Celeron really stacks up.

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51 Comments - Last by JeremiahTheGreat, 2024 days ago

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No Subject by MAME, 2056 days ago

FYI: Later pages don't load.

I wonder what the price of these Celerons will be. I have a feeling AMD will still corner the budget market, even without the Sempron's anyway.

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No Subject by MAME, 2056 days ago

HAHAHHA! It's backkkkkkkkkkkk!

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No Subject by eBauer, 2056 days ago

I'd be very interested to see overclocked performance between the 335 and Mobile 2600+

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No Subject by Budman, 2056 days ago

How much does it overclock to??

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No Subject by blackarc, 2056 days ago

hmm... if only i could use them in a dual system :D

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No Subject by Yomicron, 2056 days ago

I think there is a mistake about L2 cache sizes. It says that both the Prescott and Northwood based Celerons have the same amount of L2 cache. However, the Prescott version has 256KB while the desktop Celerons based on the Northwood core only have 128KB.

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No Subject by Zebo, 2056 days ago

AMD will still owns price to performance with thier 2 year old parts and even more so with Semiporn. But this is still wonderful news for 2004 beleaguered Intel. Let's see pricing..should be worth $60-$90 starting.

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No Subject by Illissius, 2056 days ago

Second Yomicron. I was under the impression that Northwood Celeron's have only 128KB cache. (Makes sense, considering each has a fourth of its P4 counterpart.)
Also, iirc there was something of a price parity between Celerons and equivalently rated AXP's, so while these are certainly improvements (and not small ones either), they still fall clearly behind in price/performance (the 2.8GHz usually lost to the 2600+ as well as a few lower models).

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No Subject by Zebo, 2056 days ago

Typo above: I meant AMD still owns price and performance with a two year old part.:)

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No Subject by PrinceGaz, 2056 days ago

Yes, Northwood Celerons have only 128K L2 cache while these Prescott Celeron 'D's have 256K.

You could compare a Celeron D at 20x100 with an original Willamette core P4 2GHz (as they also had 256K L2 and 400FSB) if you wanted to do the comparison between core architecture excluding L2 cache and FSB. The gap would probably be a lot narrower.

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