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VIA PT880 Preview: Soltek SL-86SPV2-RL Mainboard in Our Lab (page 8)

Category: Chipsets

by Ilya Gavrichenkov

[ 09/09/2003 | 12:14 PM ]

The new 3DMark03 benchmark affirms the tendency. The memory controller of VIA PT880 is less efficient in games than the one from Intel. Maybe the secret of the high performance of Intel’s chipsets is PAT technology, which is present in i875P by default and activated by nearly all makers in i865PE?

The task of encoding a video stream into the MPEG4 format looks much alike to games, at least as concerns the test results. Again, Soltek SL-86SPV2-RL is a little slower than i865PE- and i875P-based mainboards.

WinRAR makes things worse for VIA PT880. The mainboard based on the single-channel i848P chipset nearly approaches Soltek SL-86SPV2-RL in performance.