VIA KT266 Socket-A DDR Chipset: Third time's a charm?

The Quake III Arena performance chart is almost identical to the Linpack performance graph we started off the test section with.  The correlation could be the dependency on strong FPU performance and its relationship to memory bandwidth/latency. 

In this case, the KT266 is not enough to live up to the expectations set forth by its older and theoretically less powerful brother, the KT133A.  Again, the AMD 760 continues to dominate.  As we hypothesized at the end of our last Socket-A Chipset Comparison, it is highly unlikely that a 3rd party manufacturer will be able to develop a more efficient DDR SDRAM chipset for the Athlon than the AMD 760 at this point in time.

The standings don't really change as we make the resolution switch to 1024 x 768, although the gap does close down considerably.  This indicates that in the real world, in spite of the inferiority of the KT266 to the AMD 760, you'd only be missing out on a 5% performance advantage under Quake III Arena.  Don't you just love video card limitations?