AMD's 760 Chipset: DDR for the Athlon is here

Prior to the arrival of the AMD 760 chipset, the Athlon has lost out to the Pentium III on a clock for clock battle under most games. As we see from the above performance chart and as we're about to see more of, the rules have changed with the AMD 760.

Once again we're seeing a 10% performance advantage held by the AMD 760 over the KT133 on equivalently clocked Athlons. Remember that this performance advantage comes both from the increased FSB (133MHz DDR vs 100MHz DDR) as well as the use of DDR SDRAM.

At 1024 x 768 x 32 the memory bandwidth of our GeForce2 GTS is the limiting factor and thus there is no performance difference between any of the platforms in the test.