Gigabyte 7VAXP-A Ultra KT400A Review (3)

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Gigabyte 7VAXP-A Ultra KT400A Review (3)
Overclocker 23 Mar 2003

Benchmarking

Memory Benchmarks (fsb:166, AXP2700+)

SiSoft Sandra 2002

The infamous SiSoft Sandra 2002 is used to test out the memory benchmarks, CPU Arithmetic and Multimedia benchmarks. All the systems are tweak to it's maximum possible settings of CAS 2, 2-2-5 (except ASrock which we can't tune)

All boards running in SYNC DDR333 (166/166) otherwise specified. The FSB of the various boards are :

Gigabyte 7VAXP-A Ultra : 166.92Mhz
AOpen AK79G Max : 167.04Mhz
ASROCK K7S8X : 166.64Mhz
ECS L7S7A2 : 166.65Mhz
SiS 746FX Ref board : 168.2Mhz
EPoX 8RDA+ : 167.05Mhz
ABIT KD7 : 166.88Mhz

We ran the Gigabyte 7VAXP-A Ultra at default FSB of 166Mhz in Sync DDR333 (166/166) and Async DDR400 (166/200).

In SiSoft Memory benchmarks, we can see that 7VAXP-A Ultra seems to have improved over its predecessor KT400 chipset. The KT400A based board has a score of 2423/2561 (Async DDR400) and 2398/2550 (Sync DDR333) mode. It is coming close to the nForce2 boards in terms of memory bandwidth and has left the SiS 746FX/746 boards close behind.

In the CPU Multimedia tests, the KT400A seems to be on par with the SiS 746 platforms, e.g. the K7S8X. It leads just by a few points. The nForce2 boards still leads.

In CPU Arithmetic, the performance levels are similar to CPU multimedia tests. The nforce2 leads followed by the 7VAXP-A and we have the SiS 746FX boards right behind. We can see that it has great improvements over the older KT400 chipset.

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