VIA’s KT133A Socket-A Chipset: AMD 760 Performance without DDR SDRAM

OpenGL Gaming Performance

Again, the majority of the performance boost that the AMD 760 offered us originally seems to be easily attributed to its 133MHz FSB as is shown by the 6% performance lead of the KT133A over the KT133. 

The AMD 760 holds no more than a 4% lead over the KT133A courtesy of its 2.1GB/s of memory bandwidth.

MDK2 being a less stressful benchmark than Quake III Arena shows the gap between the AMD 760 and the KT133A closing fast, resulting in a 1% performance advantage that can be attributed to PC2100 DDR SDRAM. 

Both setups are approximately 7% faster than the regular KT133 because of their 133MHz FSB.  Remember that we are comparing a 1GHz Athlon running at 1000/100 to a 1GHz Athlon running at 1000/133 to provide a clock for clock comparison of the affects of the 133MHz FSB.