VIA KM133 Socket-A Chipset: Final Battle of the Value Chipsets

Business/Content Creation Performance using Integrated Video

Here’s where things start to get interesting.  Remember the 5% performance lead that the KM133 held over the 730S in SYSMark 2000 when we first looked at the chipset’s theoretical performance?  That performance lead has disappeared and instead turned into a one point deficit, the only difference being that in this case we are using half as much memory and are using the integrated video instead of an external display as would be the case with an OEM system based on this chipset.

The 5% performance lead the KT133 held over the KM133 has extended to an 8% lead, just by forcing the KM133 to use its ProSavage integrated video core instead of the same graphics accelerator as the KT133. 

So much for hoping that the KM133 would do the Duron justice.

In our SiS 730S Review we complained about the 730S being 10% slower than the KT133 + TNT2 M64 combo here.  However we never thought that the KM133, when relying on its integrated video could be another 10% slower than the 730S. 

When paired up with the KM133 chipset, the Duron 800 is actually slower than the Celeron 766.

Under Content Creation Winstone 2001 the performance difference isn’t as noticeable as it was under Business Winstone 2001, however the KM133 isn’t dominating the charts as we had originally expected it to. 

This brings up a very important question, why?