AMD's Sempron 3300+: 90nm Budget Computing

3D Rendering

3dsmax 5.1

WorldBench includes two 3dsmax benchmarks using version 5.1 of the popular 3D rendering and animation package: a DirectX and an OpenGL benchmark.

The Sempron is the faster CPU here, but once again, not by a very large margin - definitely not by the sort of margins that we're used to seeing with the Athlon 64 vs. Pentium 4 comparisons.

SPECapc - 3dsmax 6

Using the more strenuous SPECapc tests for 3dsmax, the performance gap widens and the Semprons hold a much more noticeable performance advantage over the Celeron D. Even the Sempron/Athlon 64 gap is pretty small here.