BIOSTAR TA990FXE AMD 990FX Motherboard Review

SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP5 Memory Bandwidth

The Sisoft Sandra 2011 SP5 benchmark utility just came out a few weeks
ago and we have started to include it in our benchmarking. Sandra 2011 comes with
support for Virtualisation (Virtual PC/Server, Hyper-V, VMware) and
GPGPU (OpenCL, DirectX 11 DirectCompute), but today we will be using the
program to look at memory and CPU performance!

Benchmark Results: The BIOSTAR TA990FXE motherboard didn’t perform quite as well as our other AMD 990FX motherboards did. The Float Buff’d memory bandwidth of the TA990FXE was 16.41GB/s while our GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 hit 17.248GB/s and the ASUS Crosshair V Formula took the top spot with 17.547GB/s. The Int Buff’d bandwidth performance of the BIOSTAR TA990FXE was also lower than we have previously seen, averaging only 16.391GB/s. The GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 had a bandwidth of 16.979 while the ASUS Crosshair V Formula maintained the top spot with 17.523GB/s.