AMD Extends Performance Lead With New Athlon and Duron Processor

Linux Kernel Compilation

Athlon beats Pentium III even at the same clock frequency in this test, so that Athlon 1200 is able to look particularly good. Duron suffers quite a bit from its reduced L2-cache.

The Linux community is very aware of the fact that with Athlon you get a lot more processing power for your hard earned money than with Pentium III.