Athlon XP 1700+ vs Celeron 900

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Primary details

Comparing Celeron 900 and Athlon XP 1700+ processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
Architecture codenameno dataThoroughbred (2001−2002)
Release date1 January 2009 (15 years ago)October 2001 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron 900 and Athlon XP 1700+ basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical coresno data1 (Single-Core)
Threadsno data1
Base clock speed2.2 GHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1.47 GHz
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cacheno data256 KB
L3 cache1 MB L2 Cache0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm180 nm
Die sizeno data150 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Number of transistorsno data37 million
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Celeron 900 and Athlon XP 1700+ compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1
SocketPGA478A
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt64 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron 900 and Athlon XP 1700+. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data

Security technologies

Celeron 900 and Athlon XP 1700+ technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron 900 and Athlon XP 1700+ are enumerated here.

VT-x-no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Celeron 900 412
+134%
Athlon XP 1700+ 176

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 45 nm 180 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 64 Watt

Celeron 900 has a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 82.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Celeron 900 and Athlon XP 1700+. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Celeron 900 is a notebook processor while Athlon XP 1700+ is a desktop one.


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