AMD's 760 Chipset: DDR for the Athlon is here

As we noticed in our first preview of the AMD 760 chipset, the performance boost we saw in benchmarks such as SYSMark 2000 was negligible. You have to understand the way SYSMark 2000 works in order to understand why this sort of performance is expected.

SYSMark 2000 runs a total of 12 applications ranging from simple office applications like Microsoft Word 2000 to much more demanding applications such as Avid Elastic Reality.

However SYSMark 2000 runs each one of these applications individually, which places the least amount of stress on an effective high bandwidth memory solution. Thus the performance improvement here bought by DDR SDRAM and the 266MHz FSB is hardly noticeable.

Fortunately for AMD, this isn’t how most people use their systems, instead you generally have more than one application open at once and you switch between them. Ziff Davis has the benchmark that simulates performance under that sort of an environment.