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AMD Duron Applebred vs. Athlon XP Thoroughbred

CPU by piotke @ 2003-10-07

Recently AMD introduced its new durons. I bought one of them, the 1.6 ghz version. The most interesting part of this cpu is its core voltage, only 1.5 V.
This cpu begged to be compared with an Athlon XP, dlt3c (known for reaching speeds up to 2700Mhz!). Is the new Duron an equally good overclocker ? Maybe even better ? Find out in this review.

3DMark 2001

3DMark 2001

The well-known and very popular benchmark utility from Futuremark !

First bench:

Same way of benching like before. Below you can see that the Athlon XP is in both cases faster. On equal speed, there's a difference of at least 400 points.

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Second bench:

And once again, let's raise the cpu speed....
On higher CPU speeds, the performance difference between the two CPU's is getting lower in this benchmark. Possible reason ? The graphics card is only an FX5200. Less dependable on high cpu speed. When I raised CPU speed of the athlon XP to 2.4 Ghz, It gave me only 400 3D marks more. From stock speed (1533 Mhz) to 2 ghz, which is a difference of almost 500 Mhz, gave me a boost of almost 1000 3d marks. Conclusion, the card is causing a bottleneck for my system. I'm sure that if I've had a much faster VGA card, the score difference would have been bigger.

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Now, what cpu is actually the best buy ? Read it in the conclusion on the next page.

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