3DMark2001 SE simulates older games based on DirectX 8.1 and it’s sensitive to any changes on the hardware configuration.
You can see the results below.
| Processor | 3DMark2001 SE | Difference |
| Sempron 3000+ (1.8 GHz) | 15150 | |
| Celeron D 331(2.66 GHz) | 10684 | 41.80% |
On this benchmark, Intel Celeron was severely beaten by the AMD processor.
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