"Today we are looking at the AMD Sempron 2600 which is a budget processor in the Sempron range. The AMD Sempron 2600 has some differences compared to the Sempron 3100 also featured in this review, the first difference is that the Sempron 2600 is a full 64bit processor unlike the Sempron 3100 used in this review which has 64bit disabled, the second difference is that the Sempron 2600 processor has a 128K Level 2 Cache while the Sempron 3100 has a 256K Level 2 Cache and the third difference is that the Sempron 2600 runs at 1.6Ghz compared to 1.8Ghz with the Sempron 3100."

AMD SEMPRON 2600 REVIEW

SCIENCE MARK 2 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (LOWER IS BETTER) 106 96 AMD SEMPRON 2600 AMD SEMPRON 3100 COMMENT - "It's now time for some pure number crunching and the Sempron 2600 is still only 10% slower than the Sempron 3100."

SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2005 PROCESSOR - ALU DHRYSTONE 7142 8217 PROCESSOR - FPU WHETSTONE 3226 3800 AMD SEMPRON 2600 AMD SEMPRON 3100 COMMENT - "Now it's time for a very popular benchmark program called SiSoftware Sandra, using the ALU test the Sempron 2600 is 14% slower and using the FPU test the Sempron 2600 is 16% slower than Sempron 3100."

SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2005 MULTI-MEDIA - INTEGER 15182 17064 MULTI-MEDIA - FLOATING POINT 16334 18425 AMD SEMPRON 2600 AMD SEMPRON 3100 COMMENT - "Using a different SiSoftware Sandra processor test the Sempron 2600 is only 12% slower than the Sempron 3100."

SUPER PI BENCHMARK 4MB (LOWER IS BETTER) 280 247 AMD SEMPRON 2600 AMD SEMPRON 3100 COMMENT - "Super Pi makes heavy use of the FPU however the Sempron 2600 is only 12% slower than the Sempron 3100."