AMD SEMPRON 2200 REVIEW "In this article we test the AMD Sempron 2200 cpu against the Sempron 3100, Athlon XP 3200 and XP 2500 using the GIGABYTE K8NS PRO and ASROCK K7S8XE+ motherboards. The following software was used during testing, 3dmark 2003, 3dmark 2005, SiSoftware Sandra 2005, CPU Bench 2003, Metabench, KribiBench, Realstorm 2004, Sciencemark 2, Nvidia Dawn, Doom 3, Half Life 2, Quake 3 Arena, Scrapland, Serious Sam SE, Tribes Vengeance, Unreal Tournament 2004, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War, X2 the Threat and Xpand Rally."
UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004
BRIDGE OF FATE ATHLON XP 3200 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 2500 SEMPRON 2200
COMMENT - "Using for Unreal Tournament 2004 for benchmarking we used the maximum settings with twelve bots for the botmatch. The Sempron 2200 was 31% slower than the Athlon XP 3200, 36% slower than Sempron 3100 and 21% slower than Athlon XP 2500."
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BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Direct3D Render Device
1024x768 Resolution
32Bit Colour Depth
Texture Detail Normal
Character Detail Normal
World Detail High
Physics Detail High
Decal Stay High
Full Character Shadows
Full Fog Distance
Decals Enabled
Dynamic Lighting Enabled
Detail Textures Enabled
Coronas Enabled
Trilinear Filtering Enabled
Projectors Enabled
Foliage Enabled
Weather Effects Enabled
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WARHAMMER 40,000
DAWN OF WAR
LOW QUALITY ATHLON XP 3200 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 2500 SEMPRON 2200
COMMENT - "Using Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War for benchmarking low quality will show cpu performance, medium quality will show a mixture and high quality will be video limited. The Sempron 2200 was 38% slower than the Athlon XP 3200, 47% slower than Sempron 3100 and 25% slower than Athlon XP 2500." |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
Full 3D Camera Enabled
Unit Occlusion Enabled
Destroy The Xenos Level
LOW QUALITY
Texture Detail Low
Terrain Detail Low
World Events Low
Shadows Low
Lights Low
FX Detail Low
MEDIUM QUALITY
Texture Detail Medium
Terrain Detail Medium
World Events Medium
Shadows Medium
Lights Medium
FX Detail Medium
HIGH QUALITY
Texture Detail High
Terrain Detail High
World Events High
Shadows High
Lights High
FX Detail High
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X2 THE THREAT
DEFAULT QUALITY ATHLON XP 3200 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 2500 SEMPRON 2200
COMMENT - "Using X2 the Threat for we used the default quality mode which should make the game less video card limited. The Sempron 2200 was 27% slower than the Athlon XP 3200, 19% slower than Sempron 3100 and 14% slower than Athlon XP 2500."
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BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
Fullscreen Enabled
Auto Quality Enabled
Anti-aliasing Disabled
Bumpmaps Enabled
Shadows Disabled
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ATHLON XP 3200 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 2500 SEMPRON 2200
COMMENT - "Using Xpand Rally for benchmarking using low quality will show cpu performance, medium quality will show a mixture and high quality will be video limited. The Sempron 2200 was 34% slower than the Athlon XP 3200, 30% slower than Sempron 3100 and 22% slower than Athlon XP 2500." |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
Fullscreen Enabled
Anti-Aliasing Disabled
Grand Canyon Level
LOW QUALITY
Bilinear
Material Quality Very Low
View Distance 20%
Water Quality Low
Car Deformations Disabled
Car Details Low
Car Envmap Quality Low
Car Shadows Low
MEDIUM QUALITY
Trilinear
Material Quality Medium
View Distance 80%
Water Quality Medium
Car Deformations Enabled
Car Details High
Car Envmap Quality Medium
Car Shadows High
HIGH QUALITY
Anisotropic
Material Quality Very High
View Distance 100%
Water Quality High
Car Deformations Enabled
Car Details High
Car Envmap Quality High
Car Shadows Very High
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CONCLUSION - "The Sempron 2200 is a fairly good budget processor which retails for only $48 (£32). Just like the Sempron 3100 the 256K L2 Cache does hurt performance with some software like Xpand Rally for example. It is good to see AMD releasing such good budget processors for Socket A motherboards and the Sempron range is superior to the older Duron range. The problem for the Sempron is the Athlon XP 2500, the XP 2500 is a very popular, fast processor which is still available for a little more than the Sempron 2200. If you check the reviews you will see that the Athlon XP 2500 manages to put a fairly large distance between itself and the Sempron 2200. It is also worth noting that the Athlon XP 2500 can usually be overclocked to XP 3200 speeds for a huge performance increase!"
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"MSI GeForce 9800 GT review also featuring the XFX GeForce 8800 GT. The MSI GeForce 9800 GT has a 10% higher clock speed than the XFX GeForce 8800 GT and 6% higher memory speed. The MSI GeForce 9800 GT and XFX GeForce 8800 GT both have 112 Pixel Shaders."
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"The Gainward Radeon HD 4850 is a pixel shading powerhouse boasting 800 Unified Shaders compared to 320 with the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 which means that the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 has 60% more shading power. However the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 is using powerful GDDR4 memory and the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 is using slower GDDR3 memory. Another advantage for the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 is the 20% higher GPU speed compared to the Radeon HD 4850."
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"The XFX GeForce 8800 GT has a 23% lower clock speed than the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870, 20% less memory speed and the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 is using fast GDDR4 memory while the XFX GeForce 8800 GT is using GDDR3 memory. The XFX GeForce 8800 GT also has a Pixel Shading disadvantage with 65% less Pixel Shaders."
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