Intel did some preliminary testing of Intel Celeron E1600 and compared it to Celeron E3300 series, and as you could expect, the new 45nm Celeron with 1MB cache and 100MHz faster clock speed ended up faster.

Both E1600 clocked at 2.4GHz and E3300 clocked at 2.5GHz and FSB800 were tested on G31 motherboard with 1GB memory.

In HD Video Encoding in DivX 6.7 and VirtualDub 1.7.2 E3300 ends up nine percent faster than E1600. In Mpeg DivX conversion new Celeron can do things 10 percent faster. In Audio MP3 Encoding in ITunes 7.4.2.1 new Celeron scores 11 percent better score while in Game Physics and AI test from 3Dmark06 Intel claims 14 percent better scores.

The winner of the test is WebPhoto resizing test in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom where the new CPU, thanks to 1MB of cache does things 34 percent faster. Since these are Intel's internal data, always take them as the best case scenario and weird test choice such as Game Physics test from outdated 3Dmark06 were there simply to make things look better for Intel.

The new E3300 and E3200 Celerons are expected in Q3 2009.