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VIA PT880 Reference PREview: It's been a bumpy road for VIA and the Pentium 4, but now, with Intel's blessing, VIA has something cooking that enthusiasts may want to keep an eye on. |
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December 5, 2003 |
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SiSoft Sandra 2004
Although a synthetic benchmark, it's a popular one, freely available if you wish to make comparison benchmarks. We will be testing the CPU, MMX, and memory speeds, using the 32-bit 2004 version.
CPU Arithmetic Benchmark
CPU Multimedia Benchmark
Memory Benchmark
Though the Canterwood maintains a performance lead across all the synthetic benchmarks, the PT880 does very well for itself. Compared to several other Pentium 4 based boards we've looked at, performance is at Springdale levels.
PiFast
A good indicator of CPU/Motherboard performance is version 4.2, by Xavier Gourdon. We used a computation of 10000000 digits of Pi, Chudnovsky method, 1024 K FFT, and no disk memory. Note that lower scores are better, and times are in seconds.
Lower is better
Very close results, with the PT880 trailing the Canterwood by about one second. Just a reminder that we're looking at an engineering sample, and it's likely we'll see some better numbers when the boards are released in the retail market.
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