Socket-A Chipset Roundup - August 2001

Office Application & Content Creation Performance

We can always count on SYSMark to make things interesting.

The difference between the slowest platform here and the fastest is just over 10%, meaning that it’s finally noticeable.  In this case, almost all of the DDR platforms perform within a few percentage points of each other while the SDR platforms trail behind.

Again, we have a 10% differential between the fastest platform and the slowest.  This time the 735 takes the advantage.

What all of this adds up to is that the DDR SDRAM platforms, on average, are 6% faster than their regular PC133 SDRAM counterparts in your average office/content creation applications.  Obviously this is just an average, and more bandwidth intensive applications will appreciate DDR SDRAM more while others may appreciate it less.