PERFORMANCE
Test Setup
Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0
Memory: Kingston HyperX Predator DDR3-2400
Storage: Kingston HyperX SSD 120GB
PSU: Seasonic X-760W
Cooling: Corsair H100 (Max)
Case: CoolerMaster HAF922
Monitor: LG E2350V
VGA: ASUS GTX680 DirectCUII OC
We would like to thank Kingston Technologies Inc. for providing our test equipment for this review.
Now we won’t dabble much into synthetics as we lack the requisite AMD board comparatives so we’ll rely on our Intel results to represent the other camp, particularly data from another ASUS board, the ROG Maximus V GENE for the sole reason that the board costs the same but as you’ll see later, there’s more than just board cost to cover.
SiSoft’s SANDRA is a benchmarking, testing and system information application which provides plenty of options in gaining information regarding your system. For this test, we gauge the raw computational power of the CPU with the Processor Arithmetic benchmark based on the Whetstone and Dhrystone test. Both tests run completely within the processor so it gives a good picture of how a processor performs.
wPrime is a multi-threaded benchmarking application designed to measure the raw computational power of a CPU. It can be configured to run on a custom number of threads to accommodate multi-core CPUs.
Maxon offers a nice benchmark tool called Cinebench which really stresses your entire system to render a very complex scene. The output score is completely unique to Cinebench but allows us to have a rough idea of how the CPU works with 3D rendering tasks.
3D Mark06 is a benchmarking software designed to measure the performance of a system in DirectX9 applications. The test has long been updated with newer version of the software for more modern use but the CPU test is still relevant and still gives us a good image of system performance by loading the CPU with logic, path-finding and physics computation tasks.
3DMark Vantage is the successor to 3DMark 06 and is targeted for DirectX10 compliant devices. Similar to our 3DMark 06 test, we only take the CPU scores using the Performance preset.
At a glance:Â It’s very well known that Intel’s processor, especially their upper tier models, show far more superior performance over their AMD rivals with the Phenom X6 1090T averaging at 51% less performance overall than the i7-3770K. This is very understandable and pretty much processor-dependent. Overclocking manages to bring just a hair closer but still, AMD is barely there. ASUS’ board does a good job bringing out these numbers from our Phenom II.