AMD Duron

The performance of the Duron under content creation and business applications, which is tested using the Content Creation Winstone 2000 benchmark, is exactly on par with that of an equivalently clocked Athlon classic. The main reason for this is because most applications had no problem fitting in the Athlon's 128KB L1 cache which has been carried over to the Duron, and for those that don't quite fit in the L1, the low latency 64KB exclusive L2 cache running at full speed picks up.

It's cheaper than the Athlon and here it is performing at the exact same speed, not a bad start for the Duron.

If you compare it to the Celeron, there is no way a Celeron running at 700/66 (10.5x multiplier) would be able to beat a Duron running at 700MHz. The Celeron, at its default clock speed is limited severely by its FSB and its memory bus as well and thus cannot compete with the Duron.

Even when we overclocked the Celeron 566 to 850MHz, the performance was just equal to that of the 700MHz Duron, in spite of the 150MHz clock speed advantage.

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