AMD Duron Applebred vs. Athlon XP Thoroughbred

CPU by piotke @ 2003-10-07

Recently AMD introduced its new durons. I bought one of them, the 1.6 ghz version. The most interesting part of this cpu is its core voltage, only 1.5 V.
This cpu begged to be compared with an Athlon XP, dlt3c (known for reaching speeds up to 2700Mhz!). Is the new Duron an equally good overclocker ? Maybe even better ? Find out in this review.

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Introduction

Introduction: Duron Applebred, come again?

The Applebred is the new revision of the Duron series from AMD. It is a tuned down Thoroughbred B CPU being sold at a lower price. Its primairy market is South America and Eastern Europe where cheap CPU's are more important high performance ones.

They are made in AMD's LAB 25 in Austin Texas, using the same die size, cpuid, voltage, etc as the TbredB. The only main difference is the FSB which is limited to 266Mhz and the L2 cache at 64Kb. The new Durons will run on any motherboard that accepts TbredB CPU's.

The new Applebred will be marketed with real clocks, not performance ratings. This suggest that the limited onboard L2 cache limits the performance. There are 3 different versions available: 1400Mhz, 1600Mhz and 1800Mhz. In this review I will be using the 1600Mhz version.


Specifications

 
1800+ DLT3C Duron 1.6
Frequency1533 Mhz 1600 Mhz
Core voltage1.5 Vcore 1.5 Vcore
FSB133 Mhz (266 Mhz)133 Mhz (266 Mhz)
L1 Cache I-Cache64 Kb64 Kb
L1 Cache D-Cache64 Kb64 Kb
L2 Cache256 Kb64 Kb



Picture comparison

The duron
The core stepping:
Madshrimps (c)

The entire cpu:
Madshrimps (c)


The 1800+
The core stepping:
Madshrimps (c)

The entire cpu:

Madshrimps (c)
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