AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1 GHz / 800 MHz

We've noted in the past that the AGP GART driver included with Windows 2000 has severely hindered performance of VIA-based platforms in gaming situations. In the past few days, VIA has finally released an updated AGP GART driver for Windows 2000 that helps performance considerably.

The Pentium III, regardless of platform manages to push out ahead of the Thunderbird. It's interesting to note that the VIA 133A actually overtakes the 820 + RDRAM and the non-overclocked i440BX thanks to that new AGP GART.

The fillrate limitations of the GeForce 2 GTS once again dominate the 1024x768x32 scores on all but the slowest CPU's.