VIA Apollo Pro 133: A Camino Preview

The Naturally Speaking benchmark is the first test in which the BX chipset at 100MHz FSB and 100MHz memory clock comes out on top of the Apollo Pro 133 with its 33% faster memory/FSB clocks.  For those of you not familiar with the application, Naturally Speaking is a voice dictation software package and the nature of the benchmark favors the BX chipset due to a difference in memory timings between the BX and Apollo Pro 133 and Pro Plus chipsets.

...and contrary to the previous benchmark, the last two benchmarks favor the VIA chipsets.  However you must keep in mind that most of the performance differences are minimal, with the BX chipset excelling in some applications, and the VIA chipsets taking the lead in others.  As a business/consumer level application solution, the Apollo Pro Plus and the Apollo Pro 133 are both excellent alternatives to the Intel BX, but how does the picture change when gamers are introduced to the chipset?