Meanwhile, Celeron will change very little between now and the Christmas buying season. Analysts agree that bus speed is not important to consumers. Blown away Recent tests conducted by PC Magazine showed that a system with a 700MHz Duron chip, AMD's value PC processor , bested a PC with a 700MHz Celeron chip by margins of as much as 34 percent on certain benchmarks . Part of the Duron's performance advantage comes from a much faster 200MHz bus. However, a chip's performance also comes from its cache.
Processor caches feed data or instructions into the processor's core.
The Celeron sports a 128KB Level 2 cache, compared with Duron's 64KB Level 2 cache. However, AMD points out that its chip has more total cache. The company provided Duron with a 128KB Level 1 cache, compared with the Celeron's 32KB Level 1 cache. However, that should soon change as the companies announce plans to deliver Duron systems later this year. VIA Technologies Inc. VIA's low-cost Apollo KM133 chip set with integrated graphics is expected to arrive later in the year.