AMD's Sempron 3300+: 90nm Budget Computing
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 18, 2005 2:10 AM EST- Posted in
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3D Rendering
3dsmax 5.1
WorldBench includes two 3dsmax benchmarks using version 5.1 of the popular 3D rendering and animation package: a DirectX and an OpenGL benchmark.
The Sempron is the faster CPU here, but once again, not by a very large margin - definitely not by the sort of margins that we're used to seeing with the Athlon 64 vs. Pentium 4 comparisons.
SPECapc - 3dsmax 6
Using the more strenuous SPECapc tests for 3dsmax, the performance gap widens and the Semprons hold a much more noticeable performance advantage over the Celeron D. Even the Sempron/Athlon 64 gap is pretty small here.
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Bapster - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
Why dont they use a mid-range video card with a budget cpu ???It's like buying an FX-55 and using a 9250 Readon
These articles would be better using an X700 or 6600 GT .
But thats only my two cents.
PrinceGaz - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
sorry my reply was meant for #7PrinceGaz - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
#6- the review says "The Sempron 3300+ has a default core voltage of 1.400V, bumping it to 1.500V and increasing the FSB to 240MHz yielded us a nice and even 2.4GHz, a 20% increase in clock frequency."That wording suggests they did not attempt to find how fast it could go, only that they chose 2.4GHz because it was a convenient speed (a straight 20% increase) to see how much difference it made in real-world performance. I would be interested to know just how high it could go to both at default voltage and a modest overvolting.
bupkus - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
#7 Yes, and of course the Celeron D can easily OC to 3.6GHz; I have a 320 that does that quite handily. But I still got the point the author was trying to make. Overclocking a cpu with limited cache has limited benefit as it still operates best within it's strengths.bobsmith1492 - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
Visual -http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=2411...
This news post? I don't see any removed news post.... chill with the conspiracy theories.
Visual - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
ok what's with this? there was a news post about someone else's review of 3300+, i think from april 15th, now you post your own review and remove the news post? why'd you remove the newspost?DrMrLordX - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
You guys only hit 2.4 ghz on the Sempron 3300+? Man, all the OCs I've seen on the 2600+ and 2800+ have hit 2.4 ghz fairly easily. My 2800+ hit 2.4 ghz with a vcore bump, and 2.3 ghz without any vcore adjustments at all on the stock heatsink. All that, with 256k l2 cache.The 3300+ doesn't seem like a very good choice for overclocking compared to the 90 nm 2800+ and 3100+(yes, there are 90 nm 3100+ cpus out there).
snedzad - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
According to latest unofficial AMD roadmap (http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/attachments/amdroadmap_bc... it doesn't seem that Sempron will ever be available for 939 sck. Both 754 and 939 will be replaced with M2 socket in 2nd half of 2006.plewis00 - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
Probably because they consider dual-channel memory a high-end thing and don't want to pass it down to the budget-end, the same thing with HT and Intel Celerons.Anyway someone said AMD are releasing an S939 Sempron didn't they?
arfan - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link
why there is no sempron 4 socket 939 ? i want to buy socket 939 + sempron