AMD Socket-A 133MHz FSB/DDR Overclocking Guide

Both the Athlon and Duron enjoy a 16% performance boost because of the increased clock speed, FSB frequency and memory bus frequency. And we see that the Duron does in fact follow our Linpack results, at 1GHz it does outperform the Athlon 750 as we'd expect it to.

This isn't the case with Intel's Celeron which, even at 1GHz, has difficulty competing with the Pentium III 750. We'll let you think about why and answer that question in our next Celeron review.

At 1GHz the Athlon holds a 5% performance lead over the Duron at the same FSB/clock speed. If you look back at our original Duron review, back then we noted a 6% performance differential between the Athlon (Thunderbird) and the Duron at equivalent clock speeds, it looks like we're seeing the same thing here.

We see an even larger performance boost under MDK2, approximately 20% for both the Athlon and the Duron. In terms of the Athlon vs Duron comparison at 1GHz, the Athlon comes out with a 6% performance advantage which is in-line with our Quake III Arena scores.