AMD Sempron 3100+ Review - After Effects and Photoshop

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Adobe After Effects

There are two parts to this benchmark. The first computation is mainly CPU based, while the second is more system oriented. (For more information, please go to Media Motion: http://www.media-motion.tv/aebenchmarks.html) The Sempron actually "wins" both of these tests. I use that term loosely because they were so close that I'd chalk it up to experimental error and could just as easily call it a tie. Needless to say however, it shows that cache is not an issue for this content creation test. I think we'll see that any time both the code and the data being worked on are large enough to not fit in either cache size, the performance will be close to identical.

Adobe Photoshop CS

Thanks to PS7Bench (http://geocities.com/Paris/Cafe/4363/), there's a tool to test various Photoshop actions such as resize, rotations, color format change, blurs, and lighting effects. The scores noted above are the combined time to complete all 21 actions. As with the After Effects test, the Sempron 3100+ came out with the lower time. Each individual test was nearly identical, but all those slight advantages add up in the end. I believe that the CG revision of the Hammer core had some changes to the memory controller. Since this A64 3200+ is of an older vintage, this might be a case where that newer chip does boast some advantages internally. Both of these programs rely heavily on memory performance, so that's a reasonable consideration.

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