PCMark04 measures the system performance by running a set of 10 tasks, like video compression, audio conversion, file cryptography, math calculations, etc, giving the final result in a proprietary unit. The results from this program we show on the graph below.

Sempron 3400+ achieved a performance similar to Athlon 64 3200+. As we mentioned, the only difference between these two processors is the amount of L2 memory cache (256 KB on Sempron and 1 MB on Athlon 64), as both run at 2 GHz.

It was 4.01% faster than Athlon XP 3200+, 9.49% faster than Sempron 3100+, 10.27% faster than Athlon XP 2800+, 15.60% faster than Sempron 2800+ and 33.60% faster than Duron 1.8 GHz.

It lost to Athlon 64 3400+, which was 8.39% faster, Pentium 4 3 GHz, which was 16.78% faster, Athlon 64 3800+, which was 16.93% faster, Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, which was 22.19% faster, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.2 GHz, which was 25.57% faster, Pentium 4 3.4 GHz, which was 28.11% faster and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.4 GHz, which was 32.92% faster.