Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 Rev 1.1 Review

Testing:

SiSoft Sandra is a diagnostic utility and synthetic benchmarking program. Sandra has possibly the most comprehensive and exhaustive hardware and software identification and description in the industry. Sandra also employs very thorough tests on basic CPU, memory, and controller function and capacities we will be using today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Processor Arithmetic

 

 

Multi-Core Efficiency

 

 

 

Memory Bandwidth

 

 

 

Cache and Memory

 

 

 

Power Management Efficiency

 

 

The Sandra testing reveals the smallest differences in chipsets and memory controllers in measuring latency, core efficiency, and memory bandwidth. The boards perform nearly identically here and certainly nothing that would yield any discernible real world advantage.