AMD Duron

Under SYSMark 2000 the Duron 700 comes up as being 97% of the speed of an equivalently clocked Athlon (not a Thunderbird, the original Athlon). This is only 3% slower than the processors that quite a few AnandTech readers were using for their high performance desktop systems at the beginning of this year, not bad for a "value" processor.

Under SYSMark 2000, which happens to be very L2 cache dependent, the Duron does fall about 6% below an overclocked Celeron running at 850MHz and is a full 30% faster than the default clocked Celeron 566. A 700MHz Celeron could give the Duron some competition here but since it will still be limited by the 66MHz FSB it won't come close to outperforming the Duron.

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