nForce4: PCI Express and SLI for Athlon 64

General Performance and Encoding

In general, nForce chipsets with Athlon 64 top the Winstone tests, while VIA A64 chipsets and Intel 925X/915 perform similarly. At the PCMark end of the spectrum, Intel is normally the winner by a wide margin. nForce4 has not really changed any of these expectations. It is interesting that the FX55 is finally alone at the top in our AutoGK encoding benchmark, a benchmark that has been dominated by Intel in the past.