Mobile Sempron 3500+ vs Athlon II N330

Place in the ranking	2984	3286
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Athlon II	Mobile Sempron
Power efficiency	1.13	0.60
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Keene
Release date	12 May 2010 (14 years ago)	no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon II N330 and Mobile Sempron 3500+ basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	2 (Dual-core)	1 (Single-Core)
Threads	2	1
Boost clock speed	2.3 GHz	1.8 GHz
Bus rate	3200 MHz	800 MHz
L1 cache	256 KB	no data
L2 cache	1 MB	no data
Chip lithography	45 nm	90 nm
Die size	117.5 mm²	no data
Number of transistors	234 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II N330 and Mobile Sempron 3500+ compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Socket	S1	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	25 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II N330 and Mobile Sempron 3500+. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization	no data
VirusProtect	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II N330 and Mobile Sempron 3500+ are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II N330 and Mobile Sempron 3500+. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Athlon II N330 0.42
+163%

Mobile Sempron 3500+ 0.16

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Athlon II N330 665
+157%

Mobile Sempron 3500+ 259

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Athlon II N330 1943
+176%

Mobile Sempron 3500+ 704

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.42	0.16
Physical cores	2	1
Threads	2	1
Chip lithography	45 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	25 Watt

Athlon II N330 has a 162.5% higher aggregate performance score, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Mobile Sempron 3500+, on the other hand, has 40% lower power consumption.

The Athlon II N330 is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobile Sempron 3500+ in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Athlon II N330 and Mobile Sempron 3500+, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.