AMD SEMPRON 3100 REVIEW

"In this article we test the AMD Sempron 3100 cpu against the Athlon XP 3200 and XP 2500. The following software was used, Half Life 2, Doom3, Far Cry, Tribes Vengeance, Warhammer Dawn of War, Xpand Rally, Unreal Tournament 2004, Quake III Arena, 3dmark 2001-2005, SiSoftware Sandra 2005, Cpu Bench 2003, Metabench, Kribi Bench, Realstorm and Science Mark 2."

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD SEMPRON 3100
	AMD ATHLON XP 3200
	AMD ATHLON XP 2500
VIDEO CARD	MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT
NVIDIA DRIVER	FORCEWARE v66.93 WHQL
MOTHERBOARD	GIGABYTE K8NS PRO
	ASROCK K7S8XE+
MEMORY	2x512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION	v9.0c

GAMES SOFTWARE

DOOM III

	65
	64
	59

FAR CRY

	81
	74
	65

HALF LIFE 2

	90
	76
	66

TRIBES VENGEANCE

	103
	95
	83

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004

	114
	105
	91

WARHAMMER 40K- DAWN OF WAR

	62
	54
	45

XPAND RALLY

	59
	63
	54

AMD SEMPRON 3100 AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500

COMMENT - "Even using low quality settings Doom3 performance is still video card limited with the MSI GeForce 5900 XT, the Sempron 3100 wins but only by 2%. Far Cry doesn't seem to be so video card limited and the Sempron 3100 beats the Athlon XP 3200 by 9%. Things improve even more for the Sempron 3100 when it beats the Athlon XP 3200 by 16% with Half Life 2. The Sempron 3100 also beats the Athlon XP 3200 in Tribes Veneance by a very good 11%. Unreal Tournament 2004 was another victory for the Sempron 3100, this time by 8%. Warhammer 40K Dawn of War is very cpu intensive and the Sempron 3100 outperformed the Athlon XP 3200 by 13%. Xpand Rally was the only game tested which the Sempron 3100 couldn't win, the Athlon XP 3200 wins by 7%."

CONCLUSION - "What an impressive result by the AMD Sempron 3100, it appears the integrated memory controller really helps with games. Even though the Sempron 3100 is clocked 400mhz slower than the Athlon xp 3200 and has a smaller cache it still manages to beat it most of the time. However when raw speed is required when using maths applications or encoding video etc the 1.8ghz Sempron 3100 performs more like the 1.8ghz Athlon xp 2500 which is to be expected."

AMD SEMPRON 3100 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - AMD SEMPRON 3100 INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - MPEG ENCODING, REAL STORM, SCIENCE MARK AND SISOFTWARE SANDRA

PAGE 3 - GAMES SOFTWARE AND FINAL CONCLUSION

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