ASUS X99-Deluxe LGA2011-v3 Motherboard & Intel X99 Chipset Review

Intel X99 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Testing

There are a number of different Super Speed USB 3.0 host controllers out there. In order to know which ones perform the best we run a series of tests that will put the controller through the ringer and see how it comes out on the other side. Each of our motherboards uses a different Super Speed USB 3.0 controller and you can find the below.

CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for drives and enables rapid measurement of sequential and random read/write speeds. Note that CDM only supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with a queue depth of 32 (as noted) for the last listed benchmark score. This can skew some results in favor of controllers that also do not support NCQ.

Testing of the USB3 was done using the “Thermaltake BlacX 5G Hard Drive Docking Station . The drive used was an Corsair Neutron 240Gb SSD.

Benchmark Results: The ASUS X99-Deluxe hit a solid 422.6MB/s sequential read and a sequential write of 359.1MB/s. The ASUS Z97-Pro was the top performer during the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 testing with a sequential read of 428.5MB/s and a sequential write of 380.5MB/s.

HD Tune Pro 5.00 is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many new features such as write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark.

Intel X99 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 HD Tune 5.50 Read Benchmark Results

Intel X99 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 HD Tune 5.50 Write Benchmark Results

Testing of the USB3 was done using the “Thermaltake BlacX 5G Hard Drive Docking Station . The drive used was an Corsair Force GT 240Gb SSD.

Benchmark Results: The ASUS X99-Deluxe hit an average read of 243.1MB/s and an average write speed of 224.3MB/s in HD Tune SuperSpeed USB 3.0 testing. The ASUS P9X79-Pro was the top dog in HD Tune 5.50 with an average read of 263.7MB/s read and 249.9MB/s write.