Duron 550 vs Pentium III 933

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium III 933 and Duron 550 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)K7 (2000−2004)
Release dateno data5 June 2000 (24 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium III 933 and Duron 550 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 speed0.93 GHz0.55 GHz
Bus typeno dataFSB
Bus rateno data200 MT/s
Multiplierno data5.5
L1 cache8 KBno data
L2 cache256 KB64 KB
L3 cache0 KBno data
Chip lithography180 nm180 nm
Die size80 mm2100 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)69 °Cno data
Number of transistors44 million25 Million
64 bit support--
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Pentium III 933 and Duron 550 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
Socket370no data
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt25.4 Watt

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium III 933 and Duron 550. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Maximum memory sizeno data4 GB

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 25 Watt

Duron 550 has 8% lower power consumption.

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