AMD ATHLON64 3000 REVIEW

"Today we are looking at the AMD Athlon64 3000 Venice which is the budget processor for Socket 939. The AMD Athlon64 3000 has some differences compared to the Sempron 3100 also featured in this review, the first difference is that the Athlon64 3000 is a full 64bit processor unlike the Sempron 3100 used in this review which has 64bit disabled, the second difference is that the Athlon64 3000 processor has a 512K Level 2 Cache while the Sempron 3100 has a 256K Level 2 Cache and the third difference is that the Athlon64 3000 has a dual channel memory controller."

SCIENCE MARK 2 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (LOWER IS BETTER) 93 96 AMD ATHLON64 3000 AMD SEMPRON 3100 COMMENT - "This time a lower score is better and the Athlon64 3000 outperforms the Sempron 3100 by 4%."

SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2005 PROCESSOR - ALU DHRYSTONE 8010 8217 PROCESSOR - FPU WHETSTONE 3700 3800 AMD ATHLON64 3000 AMD SEMPRON 3100 COMMENT - "The Sempron 3100 with it's slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon64 3000 wins both of these tests by 3%."

SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2005 MULTI-MEDIA - INTEGER 17004 17064 MULTI-MEDIA - FLOATING POINT 18272 18425 AMD ATHLON64 3000 AMD SEMPRON 3100 COMMENT - "The Athlon64 3000 and Sempron 3100 both perform within 1% of each other, however the Sempron 3100 marginally outperforms the Athlon64 3000."

SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2005 MEMORY BANDWIDTH - INTEGER 4978 3021 MEMORY BANDWIDTH - FLOATING POINT 4927 3022 AMD ATHLON64 3000 AMD SEMPRON 3100 COMMENT - "One of the main benefits the Athlon64 3000 has over the Sempron 3100 is it's use of a dual channel memory controller. The Athlon64 3000 stomps on the Sempron 3100 and offers 40% more bandwidth."

SUPER PI BENCHMARK 4MB (LOWER IS BETTER) 229 247 AMD ATHLON64 3000 AMD SEMPRON 3100 COMMENT - "Once again a lower score is better and the Athlon64 3000 outperforms the Sempron 3100 by 8%."