Synthetic Benchmarks

Possibly the best known and widely used synthetic benchmark, 3D Mark Vantage tests the gaming performance of the PC. PC Mark Vantage on the other hand tests other performance aspects of the PC like video encoding, home entertainment multimedia features, working in an office environment, and basic gaming.

Futuremark's synthetic benchmarks give us a first glimpse on Sempron performance, and as expected from single core CPU, they look rather bleak compared to even the slowest dual core models. Nevertheless, Sempron heavily outperforms Intel's single core Celeron 430.

3D Mark Vantage

PC Mark Vantage

wPrime 32M

Prime is a benchmarking application designed to use a highly multithreaded approach to calculate the square-roots of large amounts of numbers, primarily used by overclockers to check the stability and performance of overclocked CPUs.