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AMD Duron vs. Intel Celeron

Posted by michael on from the speed-on-a-budget dept.

DeadBugs writes: "With all the hype surrounding the new Athlon XP and P4 2.2 GHz, the more affordable processors have been ignored. Tech-Report has a great article comparing the new AMD Duron and Intel Celeron. Both are now running at 1.2 GHz and have upgraded cache. The new Duron contains XP technology, while the Celeron is a PIII Tulatin with a 100MHz bus and built on the .13 micron process."

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  1. hmm by RainbowSix · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unfortunately, AMD apparently isn't ready to move the Duron to a 266MHz bus just yet. That's really a pity, but AMD wants to differentiate between the Athlon and Duron

    They're not ready because to put the Duron and Athlon at the same bus speed would make their performance levels nearly equal. With the hardware prefetch and SSE we've already seen the 1 gig duron keeping up with the 200mhz fsb 1 gig Athlons. To put the cheaper Duron at 266 would give little incentive to buy an Athlon of the same grade (save for the cache).

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    1. Re:hmm by Spazntwich · · Score: 5, Informative

      "(save for the cache)"

      I'm sacrificing my ability to mod on this thread to reply to you, so I hope you're happy. You are doing a great misdeed to discount the importance of cache so greatly.

      Duron: L1 Cache: 128kbytes L2 Cache: 64kbytes

      Athlon: L1 Cache: 128kbytes L2 Cache: 256kbytes

      A difference in cache sizes of this magnitude will ensure (insure?) the Athlon a victory if it is running at a clock speed the same as a Duron. Don't just assume that they're both as fast as one another simply based on bus speed.

  2. Re:Just so you know... by Geek+In+Training · · Score: 5, Informative

    The ECS K75SA motherboard is only $64

    I must also chime in as a fan of this board. I run it in my gaming rig with an Athlon XP 1600, and 512 megs of DDR. It whomps ass! Onboard 100baseT and ATA100, 4x AGP, and the SIS 735 chipset requires no fan. I got mine for $57 at newegg.com, whom I highly recommend for parts (this is an unsolicited testimonial for an independent party :).

    Also, if you look at chipset reviews, the SIS735 comes in JUST behind the high-end Via chipsets, at many $$ less.

    Yes, I put an Audigy in and disabled the onboard sound, but the AC97 is very workable if you're running a single pair of speakers or headphones.

    Just my $0.02. (Note the leading zero.)

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  3. Intel has gone totally mad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The new Celeron 1200mhz eludes me more than any product I've seen Intel release. Just recently I read www.tomshardware.com 's artice on celeron vs duron and although he doesn't touch on this subject at all... I can CLEARLY see in many of the benchmarks (sisoft cpu bench, as well as mp3 encoding speed) that the Celeron 1200 is indeed OUTPERFORMING the pentium 4 1400 and 1500mhz. Now is that silly? yes I think so. Do I find this terribly disturbing? yes. Why? Because enginners at intel seem to think higher MHZ is better than good cpu design. And Intels own marketing strategy is going to bite itself in the ass. Oops too late.