Soyo's SY-K7VTA - KT133 Motherboard
AMD Socket A Technology From Soyo, Solid As A Rock

By, Dave "Davo" Altavilla
10 / 25 / 2000

Ah yes, the benchmarks...  Where would we be without them? 
 
 
Hot Hardware's Test System
Ready for action...

Full Tower ATX Case w/ 300W PS, AMD Skt. A  750MHZ. Athlon (T-Bird) thanks PCNut! ,  Soyo SY-K7VTA - VIA Apollo KT133 Motherboard, 128MB of PC133 True CAS2 SDRAM,  IBM 15Gig 7200 RPM ATA100 Hard Drive (thanks Outside Loop), nVidia GeForce2 GTS Ultra AGP 64MB Graphics, Kenwood 72X CDROM, Win 98SE, DirectX 7.0a

Benchmarks With The Soyo SY-K7VTA
Clock for clock, this is one fast AMD board.

In keeping with our usual suite of numbers, here are some baseline SiSoft Sandra scores, for your edification.

CPU Benchmark @ 750MHz.

Memory Benchmark @ 750MHz.

Multimedia Benchmark @ 750MHz.

Drive Benchmark @ 750MHz.

CPU Benchmark @ 773MHz.

Memory Benchmark @ 773MHz.
 
What can we take away from the above scores?  Well, from a CPU standpoint the SY-K7VTA is a fairly aggressively timed board and squeaks out every bit of performance from any given Host Processor Clock Speed setting.  Memory bandwidth on this VIA based platform is second to none and even surpasses a BX chipset based board, with PC133 memory, at an equivalent Pentium processor speed.  This is due to the memory bandwidth available to the Athlon CPU with the internal DDR system bus.  Finally, hard disk performance, although it is still only ATA66, is also quite good with the KT133 chipset. 

Now for something a little more strenuous...

These are relative performance numbers in the CC Winstone 2000 test.  The Duron scores were taken from our Gigabyte GA-7ZM (KT133) and Duron review.  As you can see from the scores, the T-Bird and KT133 chipset combination even beats out a Pentium III Coppermine 750 on the BX chipset.

But wait.... there's more!

 

 

More Benchmarks and the rating!