ALi MAGiK 1: The Athlon gets a second DDR platform

To start off the performance comparison, let’s take a look at Business Winstone 2001.  For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, Business Winstone 2001 is an application based benchmark that measures performance while running a number of complex tasks in business applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel while performing other duties between tasks such as scanning the system for viruses, extracting files from a zip archive, and surfing the net (via locally stored web pages). 

The AMD 760 chipset instantly leaps to the top, unusually enough followed by Intel’s 815 illustrating exactly how mature the 815’s memory controller is, allowing it to perform very well in this test. 

The MAGiK 1, with PC2100 DDR SDRAM comes out around 5% slower than the AMD 760 using the same memory configuration.  Not to mention that the MAGiK 1 with PC1600 DDR SDRAM isn’t performing any better than the KT133 with PC133 SDRAM.

Content Creation Winstone 2001 is much like the Business Winstone benchmark we finished describing, the main difference is that CC Winstone 2001 focuses more on content creation applications instead of business applications.  Examples include Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Dreamweaver. 

Again, we see that the MAGiK 1 comes out approximately 5% slower than the AMD 760, and when coupled with PC1600 DDR SDRAM it is the worst performer out of the bunch.