Gigabyte EP45-DS3R Review

Testing:

ScienceMark tests real world performance instead of using synthetic benchmarks. For this test, we ran the benchmark suite and will use the overall score for comparison.

CineBench is useful for testing your system, CPU and OpenGL capabilities using the software program CINEMA 4D. We will be using the default tests for this benchmark.

HD Tune measures disk performance to make comparisons between drives or disk controllers.

Wow, this is definitely a close race! The DS3R and the EP-45 Extreme are roughly performing the same, a performance that has them a strong number 2 and 3 in all of the benches behind the X48-DQ6.