Expectations
Due to unfortunate constraints that were partly due to unsatisfying support by AMD we weren't able to run a full-blown scientific test suite, as I would have liked. Still we should see a clear advantage of the DDR-platforms in applications that need a lot of memory bandwidth, such as e.g. 3D-games. However, we should also not forget the days of the BX-introduction , when the 50%-increase in memory performance (from 66 to 100 MHz FSB) hardly showed in any benchmark.
Test Setup
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| Hardware Setup | |
|---|---|
| SDRAM Socket A platform for AMD Athlon and Duron Processors | ASUS A7V, BIOS 1004D final |
| SDRAM Socket 370 platform for Intel Pentium III and Celeron processors | ASUS CUSL2, BIOS 1003.004 |
| SDRAM Memory | 128 MB Wichmann Workx PC133 SDRAM CL2, setting 2-2-2-5/7 |
| DDR Socket A platform for AMD Athlon processors at 100 MHz Frontside Bus | Gigabyte GA-7DX Rev.1.1, BIOS Rev.P15a 09/21/2000 |
| DDR Socket A platform for AMD Athlon processors ar 133 MHz Frontside Bus | AMD Corona EVT7, BIOS acrd00-4 08/23/2000 |
| DDR Socket 370 platfom for Intel Pentium III processors | VIA VT5322C, BIOS 9174-06p 10/25/2000 |
| i840 Platform | Intel OR840, BIOS 245 |
| i820 Platfrom | Asus P3C-L, BIOS 1023 final |
| DDR Memory | 128 MB Micron CL2 |
| Hard Drive for Windows 98 Tests | IBM DTLA-307030 ATA100 IDE, 30 GB, FAT32 |
| Hard Drive for Linux Test | Seagate ST320430A ATA66 IDE, 19 GB, ext2 |
| Graphics card for Sysmark2000, Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tornament and 3D Studio Max 2 | NVIDIA Geforce 2 GTS Reference CardCore Clock 200 MHz, Memory Clock 333 MHz, Driver 6.31 |
| Graphics Card for SPECviewperf | NVIDIA Quadro2 Reference CardCore Clock 230 MHz, Memory Clock 400 MHz, Driver 6.31 |
| Software Setup | |
| Windows Version | Windows98SE, 4.10.2222A |
| Windows Resolution for Sysmark2000 | 1024x768x16x85 |
| Windows Resolution for SPECviewperf | 1280x1024x32x85 |
| Linux Version | SuSE Linux 6.4, Kernel 2.2.14, THG benchmarking kernel, gcc 2.95.2 |
| Quake 3 Arena | Retail Version SettingNormal, 640x480x16 bit color, no sound |
| Unreal Tournament | Version 4.28 (patched)Setting 640x480x16, no sound" |
| SPECviewperf | Rev. 6.1.2 |
| Memtime | Intel Memory Transfer Timing Utility |
| MPEG4 Encoding Software | FlasK MPEG, ver. 0.594DivX ;) 3.11alpha |
