So lets check out some number..shall we?
but first let me give you an idea about my test system.
| CPU | AMD FX 8350 |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | 970M-A Deluxe and 990FXM-A Deluxe |
| Ram | Kingston Hyper X Beast 1600Mhz 16GB DDr3 @ 1866MHz 9-10-9-27 |
| Storage | Western Digital 320GB HDD (WD320AAKX) |
| Video Card | Sapphire HD 7790 Dual X |
| Cooling | SVG Tech HOC 40 |
| Case | Ghetto made bench table |
| Power supply Unit | Corsair AX 1200W |
Every benchmark was run until the results were consistent to rule out margin of errors as much as possible.
A few points when analyzing the graphs:
*AIDA 64 Benchmarking suites:Higher score is better
*SuperPi:Lower score is better
First up is memory performance, for this we used AIDA 64 memory benchmark
The 970M lags considerably in the memory copy benchmark but makes up for it in the memory read..kind of weird results. But it remained the same throughout all the runs.
next up is the CPU and FPU suite which demonstrates the capability of CPU and Motherboards working together.
the Cpu results are comparable between the two boards;the only difference being the Photoworxx where the 990FXM wins by a good margin.
This means persons working with Photoshop or any other similar software might get a boost.
am going to conclude this part with two big boys of benchmarking world : Super Pi 1M and 32M since the selection of a good motherboard is a very big factor in the benchmark.
The 990 won as expected in this part.
So there it is folks…two budget level motherboards that works decently out of the box. But is it recommended? lets see.
