Gamespot neemt een exclusief kijkje naar Micron's Samurai chipset met DDR SDRAM support. Uit de benchmark resultaten blijkt dat de Samurai DDR over het algemeen vergelijkbare prestaties levert als de Intel i820 met Rambus. Niet slecht gezien het feit dat de chipset op dit moment nog in rauw beta stadium verkeert:
We then loaded up 3D WinBench 2000 and all the GameGauge 2.0 game titles and compared them with an identically configured system using an Intel VC820 motherboard and 128MB of PC800 RDRAM. The results were quite intriguing. As you can see from the numbers, in most cases, the DDR motherboard in the 16-bit GameGauge tests were essentially dead even. Given that other Pentium III solution (VIA Apollo 133a, 440BX and 820 with SDRAM) are all quite a bit slower, this is significant. Remember, this is alpha silicon. As the 3D WinBench 2000 Processor test indicates, the actual CPU speed didn't vary, so there was no difference in CPU.
