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ASRock A75 Pro4 Motherboard Review

Manufacturer: ASRock
Product: ASRock A75 Pro4
Date: Fri, Aug 05, 2011 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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ASRock A75 Pro4 Dedicated Card performance

ASRock A75 Pro4 XFX Radeon HD 6950 DirectX 11 Performance in Total War Shogun 2

Breaking out the XFX Radeon HD 6950 for some dedicated graphics card testing we can see a difference between the platforms, though perhaps not as much as one would think. Looking solely at the AMD APU systems, we only see ~1 frame per second seperating them at either resolution. At 1280x1024 our ASRock A75 Pro4 took the bottom spot in Total War: Shogun 2 with an average of 71.075 frames per second. This is only 1.3% behind the top APU system. Once we cranked up the resolution to 1920x1080, the tables were turned. The ASRock A75 Pro4 was able to take the top spot of all the systems including the ASUS P8Z68-V Pro Intel Sandy Bridge system.

ASRock A75 Pro4 XFX Radeon HD 6950 DirectX 11 Performance in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

In S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat the ASRock A75 Pro4 fell right inline with our other APU systems. At 1280x1024 the ASRock A75 Pro4 averaged 94.3 frames per second while the MSI A75MA-G55 took the top spot for the APU motherboards with 95 frames per second. A difference of only .7%. Cranking the resolution up to 1920x1080 the ASRock A75 Pro4 averaged 70.6 frames per second which is .3 frames per second behind the leading MSI A75MA-G55.

ASRock A75 Pro4 XFX Radeon HD 6950 DirectX 11 Performance in Aliens Vs. Predator

Aliens Vs. Predator shows very little performance difference in our systems. At 1280x1024 there is only .6 frames per second difference between the platforms, with the Intel Sandy bridge system edging out our AMD APU systems. The ASRock A75 Pro4 happened to be at the bottom of charts, though as I said there is minimal differences with only 1.1% separating them. At 1920x1080 there is once again a .6 frame per second difference with the ASRock A75 Pro4 falling just behind the ASUS P8Z68-V Pro by .1 frame per second.

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Review Index
Page 1 - ASRock A75 Pro4 Motherboard Review
Page 2 - ASRock A75 Pro4 Socket FM1 Motherboard Retail Packaging
Page 3 - ASRock A75 Pro4 Socket FM1 Motherboard Layout
Page 4 - ASRock A75 Pro4 Socket FM1 Motherboard UEFI BIOS
Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP3 Memory Bandwidth
Page 7 - ASRock A75 Pro4 IGP Directx 9 Performance
Page 8 - ASRock A75 Pro4 IGP DirectX 11 Performance
Page 9 - ASRock A75 Pro4 Dedicated Card performance
Page 10 - Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark with Discrete Graphics
Page 11 - Futuremark 3DMark Vantage Synthetic Benchmark
Page 12 - ASRock A75 Pro4 System Power Consumption
Page 13 - Overclocking the ASRock A75 Pro4
Page 14 - ASRock A75 Pro4 Final Thoughts and Conclusion