AMD Sempron 64 LE-1200 compare AMD Sempron 150 CPU

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CPU Core Details

CPU Codename	Sparta	Sargas
MoBo Socket	Socket AM2	Socket AM3+
Notebook CPU	no	no
Release Date	08 Oct 2007	07 Dec 2010
CPU Link	GD Link	GD Link
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CPU Technical Specifications

CPU Cores	1	1
Clock Speed	2.1 GHz	2.9 GHz
Turbo Frequency	-	-
Max TDP	45 W	45 W
Lithography	65 nm	45 nm
Bit Width	-	-
Virtualization Technology	no	no

CPU Cache and Memory

L1 Cache Size	128 KB	64 KB
L2 Cache Size	512 KB	1024 KB
L3 Cache Size	-	-
Memory Types
ECC Memory Support	no	no

CPU Graphics

Integrated Graphics	no		no

CPU Mini Review

Mini Review	Sempron has been the marketing name used by AMD for several different budget desktop CPUs, using several different technologies and CPU socket formats. The Sempron replaced the AMD Duron processor and competes against Intel's Celeron series of processors. AMD coined the name from the Latin semper, which means "always", to suggest the Sempron is suitable for "daily use, practical, and part of everyday life".	Sempron 150 is a single core desktop CPU based on the K10 architecture. <br/> Its only core is clocked at 2.9GHz and the memory controller supports DDR3 up to 1333MHz. <br/> Benchmarks indicate the performance is very limited and not recommended for today's modern demanding and very demanding games.

Gaming Performance Comparison

In terms of overall gaming performance, the AMD Sempron 150 is noticeably better than the AMD Sempron 64 LE-1200 when it comes to running the latest games. This also means it will be less likely to bottleneck more powerful GPUs, allowing them to achieve more of their gaming performance potential.

Both the Sempron 64 LE-1200 and the Sempron 150 were released at the same time, so are likely to be quite similar.

{ The Sempron 64 LE-1200 and the Sempron 150 both have 1 cores, and so are quite likely to struggle with the latest games, or at least bottleneck high-end graphics cards when running them. With a decent accompanying GPU, theSempron 64 LE-1200 and the Sempron 150 may still be able to run slightly older games fairly effectively.

More important for gaming than the number of cores and threads is the clock rate. Problematically, unless the two CPUs are from the same family, this can only serve as a general guide and nothing like an exact comparison, because the clock cycles per instruction (CPI) will vary so much.

The Sempron 64 LE-1200 and Sempron 150 are not from the same family of CPUs, so their clock speeds are by no means directly comparable. Bear in mind, then, that while the Sempron 150 has a 0.8 GHz faster frequency, this is not always an indicator that it will be superior in performance, despite frequency being crucial when trying to avoid GPU bottlenecking. In this case, however, the difference is probably a good indicator that the is superior.

Aside from the clock rate, the next-most important CPU features for PC game performance are L2 and L3 cache size. Faster than RAM, the more cache available, the more data that can be stored for lightning-fast retrieval. L1 Cache is not usually an issue anymore for gaming, with most high-end CPUs eking out about the same L1 performance, and L2 is more important than L3 - but L3 is still important if you want to reach the highest levels of performance. Bear in mind that although it is better to have a larger cache, the larger it is, the higher the latency, so a balance has to be struck.

The Sempron 150 has a 512 KB bigger L2 cache than the Sempron 64 LE-1200, but neither of the CPUs have L3 caches, so the Sempron 150 wins out in this area with its larger L2 cache.

The maximum Thermal Design Power is the power in Watts that the CPU will consume in the worst case scenario. The lithography is the semiconductor manufacturing technology being used to create the CPU - the smaller this is, the more transistors that can be fit into the CPU, and the closer the connections. For both the lithography and the TDP, it is the lower the better, because a lower number means a lower amount of power is necessary to run the CPU, and consequently a lower amount of heat is produced.

Both the Sempron 64 LE-1200 and the Sempron 150 have the same TDP of 45 Watts, but the Sempron 150 has a lower lithography size, and so will affect your yearly electricity bills less adversely.