Let's have a quick look at the test systems to refresh our memories:

AMD's Sempron 3400+ battles the Intel Celeron 352. The latter, though being a low-cost product, is based on the modern 65-nm manufacturing process and delivers better performance than the Sempron.

The system setups aren't exciting at all, especially when compared to Athlon 64 X2 or Core 2 Duo machines with powerful graphics solutions. But they do represent what the vast majority of users actually have. The Sempron 3400+, for example, is somewhat equivalent to a first-generation Athlon 64 2800+ (socket 754) or an Athlon XP processor (socket 462). Intel's Celeron D 352 is as powerful as a socket 478 Pentium 4 at average clock speeds.