Software Development

Compiling program code is one of the few tasks which AMD’s value CPUs are better in than their competitors from Intel. Note that even the Barton-core Sempron 3000+ is faster than the 2.8GHz Pentium 4 here.

Rendering and Professional OpenGL Applications

The Sempron family processors are overall better in this type of tasks than Celeron D CPUs. Considering that the Celeron D lacks Hyper-Threading, this result is natural. The Athlon XP used to be superior in such applications too until the Pentium 4 started supporting that technology.