VIA Apollo Pro 266: The P3 gets DDR

Of course no DDR chipset review would be complete without the obligatory synthetic memory performance benchmarks courtesy of SiSoft Sandra's STREAM tests.

The memory bandwidth offered by the Apollo Pro 266 puts it exactly in between the i820 and the dual channel i840, making its score of 410MB/s here in line with the theoretical numbers. It is interesting to note how much higher all of the Athlon platforms perform here by default, even with regular PC133 SDRAM.

A similar story is told in the FPU-STREAM test, the Pro 266 offers more theoretical bandwidth than the i815 and less than the i840 but we already know how that stacks up in most real world performance tasks.