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

Content Creation Winstone 2000 takes applications such as Microsoft Word 2000 and runs them in the background with other applications such as Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Dreamweaver (HTML editor), the benchmark then runs tasks in all of the applications by switching between them, much like a power user would use his/her system at home.

As you can guess, this puts a much greater stress on the memory bus of a system as the applications can no longer reside solely in the L2 cache of the CPU. Here we see a 5 – 10% boost in performance courtesy of the higher FSB as well as the DDR SDRAM.

It is important to note that, like our Linpack benchmarks showed earlier, the Athlon with the KT133 chipset at 1GHz comes out in last place among the above contenders.

The principle behind High End Winstone 99 is much like that of SYSMark 2000, a single application is run and its time to complete certain tasks is recorded.

The performance boost we see from the move to a faster FSB frequency as well as DDR SDRAM is around 5% here as well.