AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.2GHz & Duron 800MHz
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 17, 2000 12:56 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
The Test
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Windows 98SE / 2000 Test System |
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Hardware |
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CPU(s) |
Intel Pentium III 1GHz
Intel Pentium III 800 Intel Celeron 700 Intel Celeron 566 |
AMD Thunderbird
1.2GHz |
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| Motherboard(s) | ASUS CUSL2 | ASUS A7V | |||
| Memory |
128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM |
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| Hard Drive |
IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66 |
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| CDROM |
Phillips 48X |
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| Video Card(s) |
NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR (default clock - 200/166 DDR) |
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| Ethernet |
Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter |
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Software |
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Operating System |
Windows
98 SE |
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| Video Drivers |
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Benchmarking Applications |
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| Gaming |
GT
Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.20 AnandTechCPU.dem |
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| Productivity |
BAPCo SYSMark
2000 |
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Without the 1.13GHz Pentium III to compete against, the 1.2GHz Athlon is left all alone to dominate the SYSMark 2000 benchmark.
To start things off, the Athlon boasts a 14% performance improvement at 1.2GHz over 1GHz under SYSMark 2000.
The Duron 800 is just 1% faster than an overclocked Celeron 850, however considering that the Celeron 850 (100MHz FSB) won't be available until sometime next year it's pretty certain that the most competition the Duron will have in terms of performance will be the Pentium III and its own brother, the Athlon.
Under SYSMark 2000 you can see that the Duron is around 10% slower than an equivalently clocked Athlon, and while not shown above, it is approximately 3% slower than an equivalently clocked K75 Athlon. This is just as we discovered in our original Duron review.
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