De jongens en meisjes van Thresh's FiringSquad hebben een comparison online gekegeld over de nu beschikbare chipsets voor de Pentium III (BX, i820 en Apollo Pro 133A) en de Athlon (AMD 750). Hieronder een samenvattend gedeelte over de laatstgenoemde:
Everyone knows the performance potential of AMD's Athlon processor. Since its launch last year it has won several industry awards and is available in systems from most system manufacturers.The unknown variable in the equation is the Athlon chipset, AMD's first offering in the market. Keep in mind that AMD didn't enter the chipset market looking to dominate, they entered because they had to. AMD initially expected their partners ALi and VIA to offer chipsets upon the Athlon launch last year.
When it became apparent this wasn't goint to happen, AMD found itself forced to supply the processor and chipset or suffer the immediate consequences.
While our Stepping six 750 chipset peformed well and encountered no problems with the GeForce 256 operating in AGP 2X mode, this isn't the case with earlier steppings of the 750 chipset. AMD deserves credit for delivering such a powerful product on their first attempt and we look forward to their future Athlon chipsets.
Check voor meer info en de gebruikelijke Quake / UT benchmarks hier de rest van de comparison. Het artikel wordt binnenkort van een update voorzien met de KX133 resultaten. (Bedankt Mfpower die dit nieuwtje ons opstuurde.)
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