ASUS A88X-PRO AMD FM2+ Motherboard Review

SATA III 6Gbps Performance Testing

CrystalDiskMark

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 is a good benchmark to gauge how well a drive will perform. Many of the drive manufacturers have used this benchmark to show off the performance of their drives. It provides a quick benchmark of Sequential and Random read/writes, and included a NCQ with a queue depth of 32.

CrystalDiskMark testing was completed using the OCZ Vertex 4 SSD.

	Seq Read	Seq Write	4K Read	4K Write
ASUS A88X-PRO	437.2MB/s	449.8MB/s	24.19MB/s	85.46MB/s
Gigabyte Z77-UP5	458.2MB/s	489.8MB/s	27.37MB/s	83.58MB/s

Benchmark Results: The SATA performance of the Z77-UP5 was higher than the A88X-PRO; except for the 4K Write speed. The largest difference was 40MB/s during the Sequential Write.

ATTO Benchmark

ATTO is a good benchmark that will provide results over any type of drive; hard drives, SSD, USB and RAID arrays. It allows the user to set various factors such as data transfer size, length of transfer, queue depth and several other options. ATTO provides a wide range of results across the various lengths, we will take a closer look at three of these, and see how the data compares for the read and write speed.

	64K Read	64K Write	1024K Read	1024K Write	8192K Read	8192K Write
ASUS A88X-PRO	377461	460439	534199	486770	539568	486957
Gigabyte Z77X-UP5	379330	511637	497029	511401	560213	511305

Benchmark Results: Both chipsets perform well, however ATTO reports the Z77X-UP5 chipset outperforms the A88X chipset..