CPU Performance Results

I spent a week with the ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6 before beginning our performance testing by running various configurations and CPUs and checking hardware compatibility. We verified our power consumption numbers using various different power supplies and played a few hours of games with some members of the TPU community to get an overall feel for the board and to verify stability. Once completed, we tore down the system, mounted our Corsair cooler, and put the board through the paces. I will, as with other recent reviews of mine, let the numbers do the talking.

SuperPi

WinRAR and wPrime

AIDA64

CineBench and HandBrake Encoding

Performance is, obviously, quite different between platforms. There's not much I can say about individual board performance yet, but I will definitely be able to say which board is doing better where within a couple weeks, since I am already in the process of testing a few more boards. I also hope for a couple more to arrive soon. Besides, this is supposed to be a motherboard review and not a platform comparison. What I can say now is that the performance of the ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6 is quite varied at stock, posting good results with some benchmarks, but not with others. That said, it is never that far off the top FM2 scores, so this could simply be due to Turbo being enabled, or because of testing variations; either way, good results.