DDR333 For Athlon: VIA KT333 vs. KT266A

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3D-Rendering Performance: SPECviewperf, Continued

Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Comparison: VIA KT333 Vs. KT266A
Page 3: Structure Of The VIA KT333
Page 4: Comparison: 4 Boards With The VIA KT333 Chipset, Continued
Page 5: AMD Makes A Change: 166 MHz FSB Clock In The Future?
Page 6: Ultra-DMA/133: Currently Supports Maxtor Only
Page 7: AGP 8x: Currently No Graphics Cards Available
Page 8: USB Ad Infinitum: 6 Ports Are Standard
Page 9: DDR333 Memory Modules Compared
Page 10: Test Setup
Page 11: Benchmarks Under Windows 2000
Page 12: OpenGL-Performance: Quake 3 Arena
Page 13: DirectX 7 Games: 3D Mark 2000
Page 14: MP3-Audio-Encoding: Lame MP3
Page 15: SiSoft Sandra 2002 Benchmarks: CPU Und Multimedia
Page 16: 3D-Rendering: Newtek Lightwave 7b
Page 17: Office-Performance: Sysmark 2002
Page 18: Linux Compiling: Suse Linux 7.3 / Kernel 2.4.13
Page 19: 3D-Rendering Performance: SPECviewperf
Page 20: 3D-Rendering Performance: SPECviewperf, Continued
Page 21: Conclusion: Many New Features With KT333, DDR333 Performs To Full Potential Only With CL2 - Fastest Chipset For AMD CPUs

3D-Rendering Performance: SPECviewperf, Continued

The results measured by the SPECviewperf benchmark suite could be clearer: in all of the tests, boards with the VIA KT333 chipset take the lead, although the differences are quite small. The performance of the VIA KT133A chipset is quite weak - in the DX-06 test, it attains only half of the performance level. Despite its dual-channel technology, the Nvidia nForce cannot really keep up with the VIA KT333. All boards with the KT333 chipset are indicated by the red bars.