AMD DURON 600
The Duron 600 marks AMD�s attempt to break into the low- and medium-range processor market, and break Celeron�s outright domination in this value conscious segment. It has a 200 MHz front side bus as compared to the 66 MHz that Celeron runs at. For benchmarking the software, the test machine had a Geforce2 GTS graphics card, 128 MB RAM and an ASUS A7V motherboard.
It out-performed the Celeron in all the benchmarks and it almost gave its high-value segment processor, the Athlon, a serious run for its money. In Ziff-Davis Content Creation 2000, it achieved a score of 23.4, as compared to the 26.7 rating of Athlon 600 and 23.3 of Celeron 600. For the real-world gaming benchmark, we ran Quake 3 on the Duron 600 at a resolution of 640x480 at 16-bit colour. With normal settings, the Duron 600 achieved 85 frames per second (fps), while an equivalent Celeron can�t even touch the magic 80 fps figure.
Value conscious users, both at home or office, should definitely take a close look at this latest offering from AMD. The processor performs quite well, especially for the gaming segment and office applications.