AMD Duron

Quake III Arena performance under Windows 2000 is improved somewhat when compared to Win98SE performance but the standings remain fairly the same. As a gaming CPU, the Duron 700 falls somewhere in-between the performance of an Athlon 600 and an Athlon 700.

It looks like AMD realized that if they released any faster Durons that they would begin to take away from their higher priced Athlon sales because the part performs so very well.

The 66MHz FSB Celeron doesn't stand a chance against the Duron, it would probably take a 700MHz part in order to even break 100 fps with a GeForce 2 GTS. But once again the overclocked 850MHz part is quite competitive with the Duron.

Here our test GeForce 2 GTS is memory bandwidth limited and thus the scores come out looking the same, except for the 66MHz FSB Celerons that are FSB limited as well as being video memory bandwidth limited.

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