VIA KT266 Socket-A DDR Chipset: Third time's a charm?

Memory Bandwidth - Linpack

Due to the sheer number of chipsets we're comparing in this article we didn't feel it would be too helpful to provide the usual line graph diagramming performance under Linpack as the size of the Linpack dataset increases beyond that of the Athlon's caches.

Instead, we are providing the below chart of floating point performance using a 2MB matrix size, indicating that the performance here is limited mostly by memory bandwidth and latency.

The KT266 doesn't start out too strong, in fact it actually falls behind the KT133A and the MAGiK1 with PC133 SDRAM.  We would normally expect it to perform close to the two other DDR solutions on the chart, however this is far from an indication of the overall performance picture.