Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 Review

Testing:

The first part of our testing will be the system specific benchmarks.

Let's get started with Apophysis. This program is used primarily to render and generate fractal flame images. We will run this benchmark with the following settings:

• Resolution: 2750x2048
• Quality: 500
• Limit Memory use: 512MB

The measurement used is time to render, in minutes, to complete.

Lower is Better

WinRAR is a tool to archive and compress large files to a manageable size. We will test the time needed to compress 100MB and 500MB files. Time will be measured in seconds.

ZIP:

Lower is Better

RAR:

Lower is Better

The Apophysis results are consistent, as this bench is speed dependent. In the WinRar testing, the results are not as dramatic as those of the MSI. Even so, the GA-P55-UD6 did outperform the Maximus III and Intel boards.