S3 Savage4 Preview

Diamond Multimedia was generous enough to pay AnandTech another visit, this time with a Savage4 product ready and waiting, in order to give us a sneak peak at the performance of their upcoming Diamond Stealth Savage4 product. The alpha release of the board AnandTech got to test ran at full speed (125MHz core / 143MHz memory clock), so the only performance increases that can be made now are those that can be achieved via driver tweaking which still leaves room for considerable improvement. Diamond wouldn't allow AnandTech to publish comparison benchmarks, so to get a vague idea of the performance of the Savage4 here are some preview performance numbers.

The test systems were a Pentium III running at 500MHz, a Pentium II running at 266MHz, and a Celeron running at 266MHz w/ 0KB L2 cache. All benchmarks were run on an ABIT BX6 Revision 2.0, with a Western Digital 8.4GB UDMA Caviar HDD, 64MB of PC100 SDRAM, running Windows 98. No foreign drivers were present during the benchmarking. All benchmarks were run using the Pentium III 500 unless otherwise noted.