AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.1GHz

High End Winstone 99 has always been appreciative of the Athlon's performance, and once again the 1.1GHz Thunderbird and the 1.13GHz Pentium III are within a few tenths of a point of each other. It is interesting to note that the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset seems to produce scores that are very competitive with the overclocked BX chipset running at the 133MHz FSB.

Here, the Duron is only 1 - 2% slower than the K75 Athlon and about 7 - 12% slower than the Thunderbird which is pretty impressive considering you can pick up one of these CPUs for under $70. This just continues to prove the recent axiom that High End doesn't have to mean expensive.