Socket-A Chipset Roundup - August 2001

IT/Enterprise Computing Performance

From fastest to slowest, you’re separated by seven tenths of a second.  When dealing with basic office tasks, you’re going to be hard pressed to find performance differences between these platforms.

Adding some background tasks to the mix helps differentiate a bit, resulting in an 11% performance advantage for the SiS 735 over the KT266 and both SDR platforms.  Only the AMD 760 is able to come within 5%.

Adding even more stressful and bandwidth intensive tasks to the load illustrates the need for more memory bandwidth in truly stressful IT/Enterprise computing environments.  When multiple demanding applications are fighting for a limited set of resources, bandwidth, latency and arbitration are key to high performance; the SiS 735 excels in all of these areas.