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Asus A8R32-MVP: First ATI RD580
Asus A8R32-MVP: First ATI RD580
Date: February 17th, 2006
Topic: Motherboard
Manufacturer: ASUS
Author: Wesley Fink

 

General Performance

There is little in the performance of the Asus A8R32-MVP in Winstone benchmarks that stands out. The Asus board is competitive with the best Socket 939 Athlon 64 boards that we have tested. We have already established in past motherboard reviews that the ATI chipset competes well with other AMD chipsets.

With the Memory Controller on the Athlon 64 processor, Winstone benchmarks are no longer very revealing of motherboard performance. In fact, we see boards that are tweaked for best gaming performance are often near the bottom of a tight range of benchmark performance numbers. The Winstone tests themselves are rapidly becoming dated, and are no longer supported by ZD Labs or Veritest. While Winstones are still useful in providing real world performance data, we will be dropping them from our motherboard test suite soon.

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General Performance

PCMark 2005 results with the A8R32-MVP Deluxe were outstanding, on the other hand. Performance of the Asus RD580 topped the PCMark05 results, and the dual x16 boards, ATI and NVIDIA, held the top two spots in the 05 results.

We were never completely comfortable with PCMark04, but PCMark05 is proving to be a much more useful overall performance benchmark. It is generally more sensitive than the older Winstones and PCM04 to recent improvements in PC architecture. PCMark05 results, in general, relate well to the other performance results that we find in our board tests - providing a quick and reliable snapshot of board performance compared to other motherboards.

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