MSI 990FXA GD-80 Review

Testing:

The first part of our testing will involve 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: 2750 x 2048
• 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. Here we will test the time needed to compress files of 100MB and 500MB. Time will be measured in seconds.

ZIP:

Lower is Better

RAR:

Lower is Better

Geekbench:

Geekbench 2.1 is a benchmark that tests CPU and memory performance in an easy-to-use tool. The measure used for comparison is the total suite average score.

Higher is Better

Bibble 5:

This test consists of converting 100 8.2MP RAW images to jpeg format. The file size is 837MB. The measure used for comparison is time needed to convert the file in seconds.

Lower is Better

Starting off the testing shows that boards equipped with the same hardware perform in a similar envelope.