Duron faster than P3?

[jdaves]

I have a duron 600@980MHz stable and it WHOOPS my P3 @900 like a red head slut child!

 

[Assimilator1]

Kinda unfair test ,what about with the Duron at 900MHz?

A friend of mine did a similar test ,the PIII came out better despite its lower clock speed ,that's hardly surprising though.I don't understand how you managed it ,how did you test this?
Anyway comparing a highend cpu to a budget cpu isn't really fair either.

 

[jpprod]

Anyway comparing a highend cpu to a budget cpu isn't really fair either.

Yeah, it really isn't. Especially as the budget CPU is kicking the highend CPU's butt

Seriously though, Duron is faster than P3 in tasks which don't need loads of L2 cache because of it's significatly better floating point performance. I think the bottom line is that both are very close in terms of performance, and that makes Duron quite an incredible budget CPU.

 

[Assimilator1]

Sure thing ,the Duron is a kick arse cpu

When my friend compared his Duron @ 900 to his PIII 650(?)@ 833(or maybe 800?) he found his PIII slightly faster in Quake 3 ,I don't know if he tested it in other progs though.