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SiS755: New Chipset for Athlon 64 (page 8)

Category: Chipsets

by Ilya Gavrichenkov

[ 12/16/2003 | 11:25 AM ]

We used the CINEMA4D package to check out the performance of the mainboards in professional OpenGL applications. As you can see from the diagram, SiS755 is the best here.

Conclusion

Silicon Integrated Systems came to the market of Athlon 64 chipsets later than the others, but with a really worthy product. SiS755 chipset offers the full range of modern functions and excellent performance. SiS755 based reference board was faster than off-the-shelf mainboards on the VIA K8T800 and NVIDIA nForce3 150 across a majority of tests. When SiS755-based mainboards appear in shops, they are sure to become a highly demanded product.

SiS again upholds its reputation of a strong player in the chipset market. The company’s exclusive HyperStreaming architecture yields dividends in the way of increased performance. SiS755 is also free from the shortcomings of the competitor products. It has a full-speed HyperTransport bus, unlike NVIDIA nForce3 150, and it allows locking the AGP/PCI frequency, contrary to VIA K8T800. The latter fact may ensure good overclockability of SiS755-based mainboards. Well, as for overclocking, we should better wait for the mass mainboards to arrive and see what they can offer us in this respect.

Anyway, I can claim that SiS755 is the best chipset for the Athlon 64 platform today. It’s only and biggest drawback is that there are no mainboards based on it in the market yet. By the time they do make it into the market, the situation may change. NVIDIA is planning to release their improved Athlon 64 chipset, NVIDIA nForce3 250, while VIA is busy polishing off the K8T800. So, I only hope we will see products on SiS755 soon enough.