Anand is in het bezit gekomen van de eerste sample van het FIC AD-11 mobo gebaseerd op de AMD 760 chipset met DDR SDRAM ondersteuning. Alhoewel de behaalde resultaten in de preview bij lange na niet representatief zijn voor de final versie loopt het verschil met VIA's KT133 toch al op tot zo'n kleine 20%. Het systeem was verder uitgerust met een 1GHz Athlon (200MHz FSB), 128MB PC1600 DDR SDRAM en een Voodoo5 PCI videokaart (dit vanwege het ontbreken van een werkende AGP miniport driver). De eerste indrukken zijn samenvattend dus zeer positief te noemen, mede dankzij de goede stabiliteit waar deze zeer vroege sample al over beschikte:
As a preview of the benefits of DDR SDRAM on the Athlon platform, we see a lot of potential in the AMD 760 and similar chipsets from ALi and VIA. While the performance improvement provided by DDR SDRAM isn't going to be earth shattering across the board, the 5 - 20% boost we do see on average will definitely be appreciated, especially considering that DDR SDRAM shouldn't carry that high of a price premium over regular PC133 SDRAM.
An area of performance we weren't able to investigate due to the problems we experienced during our testing was the professional level application performance of DDR SDRAM in benchmarks such as High End Winstone 99 and more importantly, SPECviewperf. It seems like the latter would definitely benefit from the features of DDR SDRAM: added memory bandwidth without added latency penalties, however we will have to save those benchmarks for another time with a hopefully more mature sample.
The picture we're painting here is really only half of the story though. Aside from the fact that the performance of the AMD 760 platform will improve with better drivers, and more mature platforms (although the FIC AD-11 was amazingly solid in our tests), the AMD 760 chipset officially supports the 266MHz (133MHz DDR) FSB frequency.
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