Sempron 3000+: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Sempron 3000+ provides poor benchmark performance at 0.19% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
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Summary
AMD started Sempron 3000+ sales 1 October 2005 at a recommended price of $50. This is a Palermo architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 1 core and 1 thread, and is based on 130 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 1800 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket 939 processor with a TDP of 62 Watt. It supports DDR1 memory.
Primary details
Sempron 3000+ processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 3394 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Power efficiency | 0.29 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Designer | AMD | |
| Architecture codename | Palermo (2001−2005) | |
| Release date | 1 October 2005 (19 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $50 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 1 (Single-Core) | |
| Threads | 1 | |
| Boost clock speed | 1.8 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 128 KB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 130 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 144 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 63 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Sempron 3000+ compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | 939 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 62 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Sempron 3000+'s memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR1 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Sempron 3000+.
| Integrated graphics card | On certain motherboards (Chipset feature) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Sempron 3000+. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Sempron 3000+ is Pentium III 1266S, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Sempron 3000+, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Sempron 3000+ in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 148 configurations using Sempron 3000+ in our database.
