AMD Thunderbird/Duron Investigation & Overclocking Discussion

Quake III Arena falls in line with what SYSMark 2000 told us from the previous page, a Thunderbird running at 950MHz should give you performance just slightly greater than an older 1GHz Athlon. However here it takes a Duron 650 to come ahead of an Athlon 600.

At 1024 x 768 the benchmark is memory bandwidth limited by our GeForce2 GTS card which is why the benchmarks come out so close to one another.