AMD Sempron 3300+ CPU - When we look at the grid above,
the Sempron 3300+ brings a couple of new things to the table compared to the elder 3100+. Based on the "Palermo" core, AMD is manufacturing the 3300+ at .09 microns with half of the L2 Cache complement of the .13 micron 3100+. With 128KB of L2 cache, the Sempron 3300+ is clocked 200MHz faster than the 3100+, running at 2.0GHz. Additionally, AMD has added support for SSE3 instructions, something only the Celeron offered up until now, as far as budget CPUs go anyway. Another review can be found on
HotHardware.