Duron 950: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Duron 950 sales 12 November 2001. Based on a K7 architecture, this desktop processor is primarily aimed at home systems. It has 1 core and 1 thread, and is based on 180 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 950 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is a processor with a TDP of 25 Watt.
Primary details
Duron 950 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Series | AMD Duron | |
| Architecture codename | K7 (2000−2004) | |
| Release date | 12 November 2001 (23 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 1 (Single-Core) | |
| Threads | 1 | |
| Boost clock speed | 0.95 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus type | FSB | |
| Bus rate | 200 MT/s | |
| Multiplier | 9.5 | of 42 (Core i7-7700K) |
| L2 cache | 64 KB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| Chip lithography | 180 nm | of 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K) |
| Die size | 105.68 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 25 Million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | - | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Duron 950 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Duron 950's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Maximum memory size | 4 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9654) |
Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Duron 950, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Duron 950 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 3 configurations using Duron 950 in our database.
