AMD Sempron and Intel Celeron D Microprocessors Compared

by Anton Shilov

[ 04/16/2006 | 03:43 PM ]

Although it is interesting to follow all of the major events in be battle of the top-of-the-line offerings from AMD and Intel, the majority of end users are quite satisfied with budget microprocessors. If one is not into extreme gaming and does not require high CPU performance, then the obvious choice for them would be an AMD Sempron 64 or Intel Celeron D value processor. 

TweakTown compares AMD Sempron 64 3000+ and Intel Celeron 336 microprocessors in a number of contemporary benchmarks, including games, typical office tasks, media encoding and data compression. 

“Intel’s value market was unchallenged for some time with the demise of Duron, but now it’s starting to show again that AMD can put its muscle into both high-end and value segments, and still give the users what they want. Overall the Sempron proved itself to be the better CPU, while lagging behind in the encoding and synthetic segments, when it starts to put its K8 architecture behind games, it’s clearly the winner overall,” writes TweakTown. 

• TweakTown: Battle of the 64-bit Budget CPU - Sempron 64 vs. Celeron D 64.