Duron 900 vs Mobile Pentium III-M P3M-1200

Primary details

Comparing Mobile Pentium III-M P3M-1200 and Duron 900 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesMobile Pentium III-MAMD Duron
Architecture codenameTualatin (2000−2002)K7 (2000−2004)
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)20 August 2001 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Mobile Pentium III-M P3M-1200 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 speed1.2 GHz0.9 GHz
Bus typeno dataFSB
Bus rate133 MHz200 MT/s
Multiplierno data9
L2 cacheno data64 KB
Chip lithography130 nm180 nm
Die sizeno data105.68 mm2
Number of transistorsno data25 Million
64 bit support--
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Mobile Pentium III-M P3M-1200 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 configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
Power consumption (TDP)22 Watt25 Watt

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Mobile Pentium III-M P3M-1200 and Duron 900. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Maximum memory sizeno data4 GB

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 130 nm 180 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 22 Watt 25 Watt

Mobile Pentium III-M P3M-1200 has a 38.5% more advanced lithography process, and 13.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobile Pentium III-M P3M-1200 and Duron 900. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobile Pentium III-M P3M-1200 is a notebook processor while Duron 900 is a desktop one.


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