"The AMD Sempron 3400 Palermo processor is currently the most powerful Sempron processor available for Socket 754. The AMD Sempron 3400 has all of the main features expected with modern processors such as MMX, 3Dnow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and x86-64 support. Unlike the Athlon64 3400 the Sempron 3400 and Athlon64 3000 also have support for SSE3, the only negative aspect of the Sempron 3400 is that it has a 256K Level 2 Cache unlike the Athlon64 processors."

AMD SEMPRON 3400 REVIEW

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3DMARK 2005 CPU SCORE 4341 3801 4263 AMD ATHLON64 3400 AMD SEMPRON 3400 AMD ATHLON64 3000 COMMENT - "Using the CPU test included with 3dmark 2005 the Sempron 3400 finishes 540 points (13%) lower than the Athlon64 3400 and 462 (11%) points lower than the Athlon64 3000." BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 Resolution No Anti-Aliasing Optimal Filtering HLSL VS Target 2_0 HLSL PS Target 2_0 No Fixed Framerate

CPU BENCH 2003 OVERALL 8549 7225 7358 AMD ATHLON64 3400 AMD SEMPRON 3400 AMD ATHLON64 3000 COMMENT - "The raw power of the 2.4 Ghz Athlon64 3400 is shown clearly here and it beats the Sempron 3400 by 16%. The Athlon64 3000 also beats the Sempron 3400 but only by 2% this time."

KRIBI BENCH JET SHADOW 21 14 16 AMD ATHLON64 3400 AMD SEMPRON 3400 AMD ATHLON64 3000 COMMENT - "Kribi Bench also favours the high clock speed of the Athlon64 3400 and it beats the Sempron 3400 by 34%, this time the Athlon64 3000 beats the Sempron 3400 by a larger margin of 13%."

META BENCH OVERALL 4019 3290 3163 AMD ATHLON64 3400 AMD SEMPRON 3400 AMD ATHLON64 3000 COMMENT - "Although the Sempron 3400 is 19% slower than the Athlon64 3400, the Sempron 3400 manages to outperform the Athlon64 3000 by 4%."

REALSTORM 2004 OVERALL 5555 4541 4623 AMD ATHLON64 3400 AMD SEMPRON 3400 AMD ATHLON64 3000 COMMENT - "The Sempron 3400 is outperformed by the Athlon64 3400 by 19% and the Athlon64 3000 by 2%."