AMD Duron 900 and Roadmap Update

The baby Duron hits big brother speeds

The Duron has been slowly but surely increasing in clock speed over time, and it has finally hit 900MHz.  No matter how you try and present it, the Duron is much more powerful than any other entry-level CPU that we have come across. 

The Celeron's day is long gone, even with its 100MHz FSB the peak performance of the Celeron is nowhere near that of the Duron.  Pay attention to our use of the word peak in the previous sentence because as we noticed in previous reviews, when paired up with either the SiS 730S or VIA KM133 chipset, the Duron loses much of its performance advantage over the Celeron.  So if you're buying a pre-built system with integrated video, the [100MHz FSB] Celeron 800 might actually be a better option since its integrated video platform (i810E/815E) is much more mature, however when building your own system we already know what the better option is.

At 900MHz the Duron is relatively unchanged from any previous incarnations of the core.  As usual, below you will find our comparison table of specifications.