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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  • eBauer - Thursday, June 24, 2004 - link

    I'd be very interested to see overclocked performance between the 335 and Mobile 2600+
  • MAME - Thursday, June 24, 2004 - link

    HAHAHHA! It's backkkkkkkkkkkk!
  • MAME - Thursday, June 24, 2004 - link

    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.
  • Avila001 - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link

    Intel hired marketing firm Lexicon Branding, which had originally come up with the name Pentium, to devise a name for the new product as well. The San Jose Mercury News described Lexicon's reasoning behind the name they chose: Celer is Latin for swift. As in accelerate. And on. As in turned on. Celeron is seven letters and three syllables, like Pentium. The Cel of Celeron rhymes with tel of Intel.

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