AMD's 760 Chipset: DDR for the Athlon is here

The Lightscape viewset (Light-04) has always been able to scale with CPU performance quite well, mainly because of its use of very complex rendering algorithms. Again we’re seeing a 10% improvement in performance on a clock for clock basis with the AMD 760.

MedMCAD-01 is a newcomer to the SPECviewperf test suite and it simulates the performance of MCAD applications such as Pro/E and SolidWorks. While a lot of the calculations here are offloaded onto the GeForce2 GTS’ GPU, decent amount of success in this benchmark is due to more powerful CPUs and in the case of the AMD 760, faster FSB and memory buses.

The final part of SPECviewperf is the ProCDRS-03 viewset which is a simulator of industrial design software. This time the performance advantage the AMD 760 holds over the KT133 is more in the 15% range. Because of this increased dependency on memory bandwidth the i820 and i840 chipsets move from the bottom of the charts up a notch to replace the KT133.