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Let's fire up our most favorite Direct 3D System Performance
Benchmark,
3DMark 2001SE from MadOnion.com. Although we've
tested at the default resolution and color depth, which is
1024X768 at 32 bit color, this test does weight processor
and system memory performance accordingly. As long as
identical components are used in testing, you can draw a
fair conclusion on general performance levels of the
motherboard and memory subsystem.
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Head-to-Head / Performance Progression SD7-533
Vrs. Abit TH7II-RAID |
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Real DDR333 Versus
RDRAM |
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Well now...
that's what is generally know as being within "striking
distance". Here we see the Abit SD7-533 and the SiS645
come within less than a 2% differential over all, versus the
i850 based TH7II-RAID test system we setup here. With
these kind of numbers, justifying the small premium you'll
pay for the i850 platform, can be difficult.
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Winstone Benchmarks |
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Tools of the trade
benchmarking: Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1 , Adobe
Premiere 6.0 , Macromedia Director 8.5 ,
Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 etc... |
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Remember what we
cautioned you against with respect to drive subsystem
performance and the SiS645 Southbridge? In the
Business Winstone test, a test that relies much more heavily
on disk I/O performance, we see a fairly significant delta
between the SD7-533 and it's i850 rival. The
differential is only about 4% here but that is significantly
more than what we saw in 3DMark 2001SE. On the flip
side, take a look at how close the Content Creation 2002
scores are here. Frankly, they are well within the
margin of error for this test. Content Creation
Winstone 2002 is significantly more CPU intensive and far
less dependant on disk I/O performance. As a result,
we get more of a picture of what CPU and System Memory
performance is like between the two boards. It's
pretty much a dead heat.
Quake
3, PCMark 2002 and The Ratings
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