Integrated Video Chipset Roundup - January 2001

3D Gaming Performance using GeForce2 GTS

Intel's i815 chipset continues to fall on top of the charts when comparing pure chipset performance. The second fastest Socket370 chipset here is VIA's PM133, performing 4% slower than the 815. The SiS 630S, on the other hand, performed 17% slower than Intel's solution.

With the Socket-A chipsets, we finally see the KM133 and KT133 chipsets performing identically, as VIA said they should. The SiS 730S fell behind both VIA chips by 8%.

With the graph looking very similar to what we have seen before, Intel's i815 chipset proves to be the fastest for the Socket370 platform and VIA's KM133 the fastest for the Socket-A platform.

The trend continues, with the 815 ranking as top dog for the Socket370 and the KT133 top performer for the Socket-A.

Expendable, a very memory performance-dependent benchmark, shows that there is essentially no difference between the different chipsets with the exception of the poorer performing SiS solutions.