Athlon Boosters - Three AMD 760 Boards for DDR SDRAM

Office Performance: BAPCo Sysmark 2000

The results of the Sysmark 2000 were surprisingly low. The Asus A7V133, which is based on the SDRAM-only chipset VIA KT133A, is just as fast as the three candidates with the AMD-760 chipset and DDR SDRAM memory. We consider this as rather unusual, since previous result showed the AMD760 in a considerably better light and with considerably higher scores.

3D Game Performance: Quake 3 Arena

Using Quake 3 Arena, the classic 3D game benchmark, however, produces entirely different results: The Asus A7V133, based on the VIA KT-133A chipset and limited to conventional SDRAM memory clearly falls behind the three candidates equipped with the AMD chipset. The difference in performance is close to 10 percent, which should delight 3D gamers. The Asus A7M266 is the fastest of these three boards with AMD chipset by a small margin.

MPEG 4 Encoding: Flask Mpeg

The difference is even greater when running Flask Mpeg for MPEG 4 encoding. Here, the DDR memory shows the greatest advantage over conventional SDRAM memory in speed. The front-runner is the Asus A7M266 with more than 16 frames per second, while the board equipped with the KT133A chipset falls behind with only 13.8 frames per second.