Amd A75 3 Way Motherboard Shootout Test System Specs Memory Performance

AM3 Test System Specs - AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (3.30GHz) - x2 4GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-12800 (CAS 8-8-8-20) - Asus Crosshair IV Extreme (AMD 890FX) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 SOC (1536MB) - OCZ ZX Series 850w - Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB Software - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - Nvidia Forceware 280.26 The Asus F1A75-V ranked highest in our memory bandwidth test with a throughput of 10.4GB/s, a notch ahead of Gigabyte’s 10.1GB/s and Asrock’s 9.8GB/s. In the latter example, Asus’ board was actually 5% faster than the competition. When examining the L2 cache results, you’ll notice that despite providing a lower memory bandwidth, the AMD Phenom II X6 1100T’s L2 cache performance is much greater than the A8-3850’s, allowing the 890FX board to steal the lead. The A8-3850’s L2 cache bandwidth is limited to around 23GB/s as displayed by the Asus F1A75-V, which outpaced the A75-UD4H and Extreme6.