NVIDIA 680i 1333FSB Testing

When Intel launched their P35 chipset in late May, it brought both DDR3 and the 1333FSB to the table. Not too many people were terribly impressed on the FSB front however, considering most enthusiast motherboards have been able to hit that regardless of whether it was ‘official’ spec or not. There were some compatibility issues though, which many manufacturers seem to be taking care of now.

Gary Key from AnandTech takes a look at fresh BIOS’ for NVIDIA 680i-based boards that make 1333FSB ‘official’. They threw in their QX6850 and were left quite impressed overall. It turns out that the 680i manages to surpass the P35s performance in some regards, but lags slightly in others.

Both chipsets showed their strengths in certain areas and held on tight in the others. In applications that are GPU or storage system sensitive, the 680i consistently finishes first in most of our benchmarks. It is only in the memory bandwidth, CPU throughput, or latency sensitive applications that we see the Intel P35 chipset pull away although the differences for both are minimal in most cases.

Source: AnandTech