Intel Celeron 700

Under SPECviewperf the platform we ran the Celerons on seemed to make a much bigger difference than before. While the VIA 133A used to be able to edge out the i815, the Celeron 566 running on the i815 is even beating the 700MHz CPU running on the 133A.

If you take this one step further and realize that the KT133 chipset the Thunderbird is using is actually using the same memory controller as the 133A while the Thunderbird is still dominating the test you can begin to imagine how fast the Thunderbird/Duron would be if they had a platform with a better memory controller.

The Design Review benchmark is a bit more effected by CPU performance than memory performance (but not by a great amount) than the previous test. The standings still remain fairly similar, the Duron is a much better "value" processor for high end applications as we've proved with the past two SPECviewperf tests and as we will prove with the next three.