PiFast
A
good indicator of CPU/Motherboard performance is PiFast
version 4.2, by Xavier Gourdon. We used a computation of 10000000
digits of Pi, Chudnovsky method, 1024 K FFT, and no disk memory.
Note that lower scores are better, and times are in seconds.
| |
Time in Seconds (lower
is better)
|
| ASUS
P5AD2 |
45.95
|
| Intel
D925XCV |
47.03
|
PiFast hits both the CPU and memory pretty hard with this test,
and the ASUS board is just over one second faster in this test.
Use larger numbers, and this gap will widen.
CDex Audio Conversion Wav to MP3
CDex was used to convert a 414MB Wav file to a 320kbs MP3.
| |
Time in Minutes:Seconds
(lower is better)
|
| ASUS
P5AD2 |
1:31
|
| Intel
D925XCV |
1:33
|
As with the PiFast benchmark, the ASUS P5AD2 Premium
leads the Intel D925XCV again. This time, there is a wider gap
in performance, with a difference of two seconds in the P5AD2's
favour.
TMPGEnc
2.521
We
used an Animatrix file, titled The
Second Renaissance Part 1, and a WAV created from VirtualDub.
The movie was then converted it into a DVD compliant MPEG-2 file
with a bitrate of 5000. Times are in minutes:seconds, and lower
is better.
| |
Time in Minutes:Seconds
(lower is better)
|
| ASUS
P5AD2 |
2:17
|
| Intel
D925XCV |
2:22
|
Both boards converted the AVI file faster than we've
ever seen here at VL, though keep in mind that the Pentium 4 560
is the highest clocked CPU we've used as well. Although the Intel
board has a great showing, the ASUS board is a good five seconds
faster.
Unreal
Tournament 2003: Antalus, Min Detail @ 640
| |
Frames per Second (Higher
is better)
|
| ASUS
P5AD2 |
359.72
|
| Intel
D925XCV |
348.34
|
Return
to Castle Wolfenstein: Checkpoint, Min Detail @ 640
| |
Frames per Second (Higher
is better)
|
| ASUS
P5AD2 |
232.3
|
| Intel
D925XCV |
224.6
|
Quake 3: Arena, Min Detail @ 640
| |
Frames per Second (Higher
is better)
|
| ASUS
P5AD2 |
432.5
|
| Intel
D925XCV |
427.8
|
Call of Duty, Min Detail @ 640
| |
Frames per Second (Higher
is better)
|
| ASUS
P5AD2 |
248.5
|
| Intel
D925XCV |
240.3
|
From DirectX to OpenGL, the ASUS P5AD2 Premium is very strong
in all the tests, besting the Intel board in all the benchmarks.
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