AMD Sempron: A Fresh Take on Budget Computing
by Derek Wilson on July 28, 2004 12:01 AM EST- Posted in
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DirectX 8 Gaming Performance
In Command & Conquer, the platform advantages of 754 really shine through in this game benchmark, as this game proves to be a very system limited benchmark. The Celeron 335 leads the Sempron by about 1.7%.Unreal Tournament shows the Celeron 335 leading the Athlon XP 2600+ and the Sempron 2800+ in the flyby test (which is traditionally more graphics card limited) while the top 6 performers in the Botmatch test are AMD processors. As the Botmatch more closely resembles gameplay and is more affected by CPU, this benchmark goes to the AMD processors.
With Warcraft, the Sempron 3100+ doesn't have a competitor that can touch it from Intel. This benchmark shows the Sempron 2800+ essentially performing equivalently to the Celeron 325.
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Pumpkinierre - Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - link
Good to see the loss of cache having little effect. From 1Mb to 256K of L2 there would be barely 5% loss in overall performance even in cache biased demos and benchmarks and probably less in real gaming. 256K of L2 is right on the money, all that is needed is the S939 flavor with the dualmemory channel and a lasting socket. The a64 will show its true colours in data streaming activities once software is written or compiled for it rather than P4 biased software. cant wait to see the overclock.Zebo - Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - link
Looks like there's going to hardly a difference between a Celeron 335 and Sempron 2800+.---------------
Comparing the top celeron to middle of the road athlon on a old socket A? Comparing a more expensive celeron to a less expensive sempron...
Hardly equitable. Look at the benches comaring competing processors. The 3100+ scores a, to use your words, 'WE PWNED INT3L OMG!!!' victory of 20+ % almost accross the board.;)
ncage - Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - link
the overall value comes in upgradability. You can buy a socket 754 mb + sempron processor and be able to upgrade to an amd 64 chipset without upgrading your mb. So i think its awesomebearxor - Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - link
I don't know...Looks like there's going to hardly a difference between a Celeron 335 and Sempron 2800+.
I don't think anyone could sit in front of either of these processors and tell a real-world difference.
While this looks like a victory for AMD, I think its really slim victory and not much of a 'WE PWNED INT3L OMG!!!' victory.
No doubt the overall cost of the Intel system will be higher, but will it matter for OEM's like Gateway/Compaq, etc?
I imagine we'll see systems using both from most manufacturers but the only downfall I see here is that regardless of which system you choose, you're already outdated with a very minimal upgrade path.
Zebo - Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - link
Awesome!