Today we take two budget processors that are priced well under $100 US from the Intel Celeron and AMD Sempron series. The new Conroe-L based Celeron 440 goes to war against the proven Sempron 3600+ to try and claim the budget processor crown. Both processors are clocked at 2.0GHz, but the Celeron has a distinct advantage, featuring twice as much L2 cache. So on paper the Celeron 440 looks to be the more powerful processor, but how will the Celeron stack up again the Sempron when it comes to gaming?

On paper the Celeron 440 looks to be the superior processor and although the Sempron 3600+ dominated the memory bandwidth testing, it was the Celeron that claimed the processor performance testing. The Celeron 440 looked sharp in SiSoft XI, producing impressive single-core results while it was significantly faster at making Super PI calculations and offered more bandwidth in PCmark2005. So as expected, the Celeron 440 fared quite well against the Sempron 3600+ thanks to the much larger 512KB L2 cache.



Link: Legion Hardware