AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.1GHz

Content Creation Winstone 2000 paints us the same picture we've seen all along. The 1.13GHz Pentium III is barely faster than the 1.1GHz Thunderbird and depending on the platform, it could end up being slightly slower, the main thing to keep in mind is that the performance of the two solutions is so close that you need to turn to comparisons based on other factors to make your decision. The other factors to take into consideration are availability, price, and cost of the motherboards. In two of those categories, availability and price, AMD has most definitely had the advantage in recent history.

The above benchmarks illustrate the potential of the Duron to be an excellent entry level processor, however it is still lacking something the Celeron has. We'll talk about exactly what that is in the conclusion, for now let's move onto High End performance...