AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.2GHz & Duron 800MHz

Expendable has always appreciated fast L2 caches and thus fast memory buses. This helps explain its slight bias towards the large, low-latency L1 cache of the Athlon. The 1.2GHz Athlon continues to provide a 10% lead over the 1GHz Athlon as well as the 1GHz Pentium III; although not listed, its performance improvement offered over the 1.1GHz Athlon is around 5% as well.

The Duron continues to show a performance advantage over the overclocked Celeron 850 while remaining a good 11% behind an equivalently clocked Athlon.