SiS 756: PCI Express for AMD Socket 939

General Performance and Encoding

As we have seen so many times before on Athlon 64 benchmarks, moving the memory controller to the processor has presented us with very tight benchmark ranges. Here, we have 4 different chipsets and we still have a very small variation in any of the test results.

This small variation in Benchmark results in General Performance and Encoding means buyers can choose Athlon 64 boards based on features and/or price. They can still be confident that the board and chipset that they get will perform competitively. That is good news for those in the market for a new motherboard.

One small hiccup in the overall results was performance of the SiS 756 in PCMark. In the 2004 version, the SiS chipset was among the worst performers, while in the 2005 version, it rises to one of the best performances.

Overall, there is little to distinguish or detract from the SiS 756 in General Performance and Encoding. The SiS is competitive with the best Socket 939 Athlon 64 boards that we have tested.