Socket-A Chipset Roundup - August 2001

3D Rendering & Animation Performance

We have proved countless times before that 3D Studio MAX wasn’t incredibly memory bandwidth intensive.  The range of scores differs only by 1.7%.

The AMD 760 seems to perform very well in all of the SPECviewperf viewsets.  The only plausible explanation being that a more mature AGP controller is working in favor of the 760.  In the future, as more and more geometry data is being sent over the AGP bus to the graphics card mature AGP controllers will become key to 3D performance; especially when it comes to games.