The guys over at this Chinese web-site carried out the first tests of the new i845-D (Brookdale-D) chipset supporting PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM and compared the results obtained with those shown by SiS645 and VIA P4X266, which also support Pentium 4 processors and DDR SDRAM. Here is this newcomer, which should officially be launched in January, take a look:

Now let’s see what this chipset is worth (all the tests were run on a system built with Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz and 256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM):

Benchmark	VIA P4X266	SiS645	Intel 845-D
3D Mark 2001	3708	3700	3732
Quake3 Arena, 1024x768x32, timedemo 1	119.7	119.1	118.5
Quake3 Arena, 1024x768x32, timedemo 2	127.3	126.3	125.4
Content Creation Winstone 2001	51.5	49	52.4
Business Winstone 2001	45.3	46.3	47.3
SiSoft Sandra Float FPU/RAM Bandwidth	1038	950	1019
SiSoft Sandra Integer ALU/RAM Bandwidth	1022	937	1001

As we can see from this table, the performance of the new i845-D is close to that shown by other DDR chipsets for Intel Pentium 4 processors available in the today’s market. However, please take note that the chipset tested was far not the final revision and the results shown by mass i845-D pieces may turn out somewhat different.