ALi MAGiK 1: The Athlon gets a second DDR platform

UnrealTournament, another first person shooter, this time using the Direct3D API offered a small performance increase for the AMD 760 over the KT133 when we first looked at the game as a benchmark. 

That small performance increase (around 7%) is trimmed down when the same PC2100 DDR SDRAM is used on the MAGiK 1.  Again, we are seeing the same 5% lower performance on the ALi platform when compared to the AMD 760. 

Using PC1600 DDR SDRAM with the MAGiK 1 chipset doesn’t make much sense as its slower than the KT133.  Although our AMD 760 platform wouldn’t allow for multiplier adjustment, thus preventing us from providing comparable PC1600/200MHz FSB numbers on the AMD 760, we can assume that if the 5% performance differential holds then the AMD 760 with PC1600 DDR SDRAM would be around the performance level of the MAGiK 1 with PC2100 DDR SDRAM, most likely a little slower.

The performance gap closes down as the resolution increases, we still see the same trend however.  The MAGiK 1 is under performing compared to the AMD 760 and when used with PC1600 DDR SDRAM it actually comes out slower than the VIA KT133 using conventional PC133 SDRAM.