CPU Performance Results

SuperPi

Super Pi serves as our memory-focused benchmark, being highly single-threaded. We see the low CPU speed and lack of L3 cache affect performance here a fair bit, but with it being a mainstream platform, this is of little consequence.

wPrime

wPrime is much more CPU-focused, but memory plays its role as well. Again we see some of our lowest test results, but again, being a synthetic benchmark, the numbers don't always hold the truth.

WinRAR

A new addition to our motherboard benchmarking suite is the built-in benchmark that is part of the WinRAR software suite. WinRAR performance mirrors the results of the other benchmarks, being low compared to the other new platforms, but is hardly that bad that we immediately dismiss the platform.

AIDA64

We employed AIDA64's memory bench to highlight memory bandwidth. We isolate the write performance metric as it serves as a good indicator of overall memory performance. Here we see some of the improvements offered by AMD's new memory controller, offering significant improvements over the AM3 Phenom II chips.

HandBrake Encoding

Handbrake is used for encoding testing, where we perform a real-world test by encoding a video file to another format. Again we see some pretty low numbers, but again we see this of no importance, given the platform's intended market.

CineBench Encoding

Cinebench showed low results in both the GPU and CPU tests, and we were a bit disappointed by GPU results, with the platform showing an effect on 3D performance. With the seemingly low default clockspeeds this is something that cannot be avoided, but for a mainstream platform, it's perfectly fine.