Now let’s see how the new value processor from AMD performs in real games.

First, we launched the recently released 64-bit version of Far Cry and the Sempron 3400+ ran it quite fast. Particularly, this CPU is ahead of the Celeron D 351 and is similar to the Athlon 64 3000+ models. When overclocked to 2.6GHz, the Sempron 3400+ is slightly slower than the Athlon 64 3800+ with has a 200MHz lower frequency, but a twice as large L2 cache and a dual-channel memory controller.

It is all almost the same in the 32-bit Doom 3. The Celeron D is on the losing side again. Note that the amount of L2 cache memory is most important for Doom 3 , so the overclocked Sempron 3400+ is slower than the Athlon 64 3800+.

Another game shows us that the Celeron D has no chance against the Socket 754 Sempron in their competition for a place in an inexpensive gaming platform. Here, the Sempron 3400+ outperforms the Celeron D 351 by 38% in the regular mode and by 45% at overclocking.