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Posted: January 13, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Benchmarks SYSMark 2000  SYSMark shows us how the Duron will perform in everyday Office and home productivity applications. Compared to the more expensive 850MHz Thunderbird, the 850MHz Duron does hold its own; especially considering its price. Here, the much less expensive Duron 850MHz is only 3.3% slower than its equivalent Thunderbird brother. This is really good considering that the Duron has only 1/4 the L2 cache of the Thunderbird. It's obvious that the performance and price of the Duron is one very hard to compete with. Let’s follow up with some 3DMark scores. 3DMark2000  With 3DMark2000 showing off video and CPU power, we went with a GeForce2 Ultra based card to make sure that our video end wasn’t going to be a bottleneck. With that in mind, our Duron 850 really showed off some processing muscles and was able to keep up with our 850MHz Thunderbird without a hitch. The larger cache allotment in the Tbird helps it excel in some applications, but the Duron really keeps its pace.  With 32-bit scores, the marks drop accordingly, but the race is still pretty much the same. Here the Duron still manages to spit out respectable scores. This is one mean gaming CPU. Speaking of gaming, let’s take a look at some Quake 3 scores... |
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