Duron 900 vs Pentium III 866

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium III 866 and Duron 900 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 segmentDesktop processorDesktop processor
Seriesno dataAMD Duron
Architecture codenameCoppermine T (2000)Spitfire (2000−2001)
Release date20 March 2000 (24 years ago)2 April 2001 (23 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$129

Detailed specifications

Pentium III 866 and Duron 900 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 cores1 (Single-Core)1 (Single-Core)
Threads11
Boost clock speed0.87 GHz0.9 GHz
Bus typeno dataFSB
Bus rateno data200 MT/s
Multiplierno data9
L1 cache32 KB128 KB
L2 cache256 KB64 KB
L3 cache0 KBno data
Chip lithography180 nm180 nm
Die size106 mm2100 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)80 °Cno data
Number of transistors28 million25 million
64 bit support--
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Pentium III 866 and Duron 900 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 configuration21 (Uniprocessor)
Socket370A
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt40 Watt

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium III 866 and Duron 900. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR1 Depends on motherboard
Maximum memory sizeno data4 GB

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 March 2000 2 April 2001
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 40 Watt

Pentium III 866 has 48.1% lower power consumption.

Duron 900, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Pentium III 866 and Duron 900. We've got no test results to judge.


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