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Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H Motherboard Review - AMD 890GX

Manufacturer: Gigabyte
Product: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H
Date: Tue, Mar 02, 2010 - 08:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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3DMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware. 3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.

3DMark Vantage

The Entry settings were used for testing, so a resolution of 1024x768 was run.

3dmark Vantage Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The integrated Radeon HD 4290 graphics were able to score ~3200 3DMarks in the entry level benchmark in 3DMark Vantage as you can see above. Both the ASUS and Gigabyte 890GX motherboards were nearly tied in the integrated GPU testing.  Once we added in a Radeon HD 5870 graphics card into each system with CATALYST 10.2 drivers the performance of the system increased greatly as you can see the GPU score went from 2,500 to nearly 55,000! Once again the Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H had better discrete graphics, which confirms the better PCIe x16 performance that we saw on Cinebench R11.5 on the previous page. 

Next Page - PCMark Vantage


Review Index
Page 1 - AMD Launched The 890GX Chipset
Page 2 - Gigabyte Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H Layout
Page 4 - Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H BIOS
Page 5 - The Test System
Page 6 - Sandra 2010 Memory Bandwidth
Page 7 - Cinebench 11.5
Page 8 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 9 - PCMark Vantage
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - USB 3.0 Testing
Page 13 - SATA 6Gbps Testing
Page 14 - Overclocking and AoD 3.1
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions