New THG Article - Attack: Duron 1200 Takes On the Pentium 4
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Frank Völkel and Bert Töpelt pit the Pentium 4 with RDRAM against the Duron with PC2100, and just for kicks added a full lineup of Athlon XP processors (1500+ to overclocked 2000+) and a Celeron running at 1.2GHz with PC133.
The Conclusion: Duron 1200 Beats Pentium 4/1500 & Celeron 1200.
Of course, this is a perfectly reasonable conclusion if you ignore 14 out of 20 tests where the 1.5GHz Pentium 4 beats the Duron, 12/20 tests where the 1.4GHz Pentium 4 beats the Duron, and 6/20 tests where the Celeron beats the Duron. Other than these, the Duron wins in everything. <g>
The authors conclude, "The results in the MPEG-4 encoding and Linux compilation benchmarks are proof enough that this low-end processor is in the same performance ballpark as substantially more expensive CPUs. In these disciplines, the fastest Duron today, clocked at 1200 MHz, even beats the Intel Pentium 4/1500. With that kind of performance, Intel's Celeron 1200 isn't serious competition for the AMD Duron 1200."
And this is also a pretty reasonable statement if you consider the street price for a 1.4GHz Pentium 4 (at $105) and a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 (at $147) to be "substantially more expensive" than an as yet unavailable 1.2GHz Duron (listed with ETA date at one vendor for $105). And that's not mentioning the currently available Celeron 1.2GHz, which shows up at 10 vendors for as little as $108.
But then again, as far as some people on this thread are concerned, Frank Völkel and Bert Töpelt are extremely biased by Intel, and were probably paid to write the review as favorable as they did.
Hmm... I'll just let the facts speak for themselves.
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