VIA's K8T900 Chipset
Kribibench v1.1 and Cinebench 2003
Next up, we ran the Kribibench rendering benchmark produced by the folks at Adept Development. Kribibench is an SSE aware software renderer. A 3D model is rendered and animated by the host CPU, and the average frame rate is reported. We used two of the included models with this benchmark: an "Exploded Sponge" model consisting of over 19.2 million polygons and then its enormous "Ultra" model that is comprised of over 16 billion polygons.
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In the Sponge Explode test, the test bed built on the K8T900 reference board was the top performer by 1.3% at 2.24 FPS while the Ultra Model test had the two test beds tied at .62.
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Our next test was with Cinebench 2003. This test is a multithreaded application, however, since the Athlon 64 3700+ is a single core CPU, only single-thread testing was completed.
With Cinebench 2003, the VIA K8T900 test system reached a slightly higher result over the nForce 4 SLI comparison system. Peaking at 85.3, the K8T900 lead the competitor board by just over 1%.
