New Durons faster then old Thunderbirds?

[SleepyGuy]

Just wondering because I think the new Durons have an XP core... SSE? Does that mean they are faster than the old thunderbirds? Thanks.

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

Not really. The size of the cache has more to do with application speed than SSE optimizations, at least in most scenarios.




edit: Forgot to mention that unless you overclock your Duron it will be saddled with the slower 100Mhz bus which affects performance as well.

 

[Rand]

The Duropn with the Morgan core is roughly 50MHz slower then an equivalently clocked T-Bird, that is an imporvement to the previous Spitfire core but not quite enough to put it on par with the T-Bird.
There are of course some situations in heavily SSE optimized applications in which the Duron would be equal to or faster, but those or the exception and not very common.