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MSI A75MA-G55 AMD Socket FM1 Motherboard Review

Manufacturer: Micro-Star International
Product: MSI A75MA-G55
Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark with Discrete Graphics

3DMark 11 Screenshot

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

3DMark 11 Settings

Since Futuremark is releasing 3DMark11 today we decided to run the benchmark at both performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

MSI A75MA-G55 3DMark11 Performance Preset Benchmark Results

3DMark 11 Performance Preset with Discrete Graphics

MSI A75MA-G55 3DMark11 Extreme Preset Benchmark Results

3DMark 11 Extreme Preset with Discrete Graphics

Benchmark Results: In Futuremark 3DMark11 we can definitely see a difference between the two platforms. Taking a look at the Performance Preset in Futuremark 3DMark 11 the MSI A75MA-G55 and the ASUS F1A75-M Pro are pretty well balanced with only 2 points separating the overall score of 4330 for the ASUS F1A75-M Pro and 4328 for the MSI A75MA-G55. Looking at the Extreme Preset our scores are virtually identical between the APU systems. There is only 1 point separating the two systems in the overall score while the GPU scores show no difference.


Next Page - Futuremark 3DMark Vantage Synthetic Benchmark


Review Index
Page 1 - MSI A75MA-G55 Motherboard Review
Page 2 - Retail Packaging
Page 3 - Motherboard Layout
Page 4 - MSI A75MA-G55 Click BIOS
Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP3 Memory Bandwidth
Page 7 - MSI A75MA-G55 IGP Directx 9 Performance
Page 8 - MSI A75MA-G55 IGP DirectX 11 Performance
Page 9 - MSI A75MA-G55 Dedicated Card performance
Page 10 - Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark with Discrete Graphics
Page 11 - Futuremark 3DMark Vantage Synthetic Benchmark
Page 12 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer
Page 13 - SATA III 6Gbps Performance Testing
Page 14 - SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Testing
Page 15 - MSI A75MA-G55 System Power Consumption
Page 16 - Overclocking the MSI A75MA-G55 APU Motherboard
Page 17 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion