VIA Responds with KT400A, Five Months Later

3D Rendering Performance (continued)

3D Rendering Performance Maya 4.0.1 - rendertest.ma (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better) NVIDIA nForce2 (333/DualDDR333) VIA KT400A (333/DDR333) 64 64 | 0 | 13 | 26 | 38 | 51 | 64 | 77

Under Maya, the performance is identical to what we saw under 3dsmax, the two platforms are identical.

3D Rendering Performance Lightwave 3D 7.5 - raytrace (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better) VIA KT400A (333/DDR333) NVIDIA nForce2 (333/DualDDR333) 133.8 134.1 | 0 | 27 | 54 | 80 | 107 | 134 | 161

3D Rendering Performance Lightwave 3D 7.5 - sunset (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better) VIA KT400A (333/DDR333) NVIDIA nForce2 (333/DualDDR333) 43.3 43.7 | 0 | 9 | 17 | 26 | 35 | 44 | 5

3D Rendering Performance Lightwave 3D 7.5 - radiosity_reflective_things (Render Time in Seconds - Lower is Better) VIA KT400A (333/DDR333) NVIDIA nForce2 (333/DualDDR333) 89.5 89.8 | 0 | 18 | 36 | 54 | 72 | 90 | 108

The KT400A manages to slightly outperform the nForce2 in the Lightwave tests, but once again the performance advantage is negligible at best.