VIA Apollo Pro 266: The P3 gets DDR

To conclude our gaming performance tests we have Expendable which is more easily influenced by memory bandwidth than many of the previous benchmarks. Going along with this assumption about the benchmark it isn't too surprising that the Apollo Pro 266 is able to slightly edge out the i815 for the first time thus far.

Under SPECviewperf, which is designed to be a simulation of system usage as a professional level 3D workstation, the Apollo Pro 266 actually offers performance that is either equal to or slightly greater than the i815. Again, if the price of DDR SDRAM were to come down to the level of PC133 SDRAM, the Pro 266 wouldn't be such a bad alternative to the i815.