ECS GF8200A Black Series Motherboard Review

Overall Performance: PCMark Vantage

The new PCMark Vantage program simulates the use of real-world applications and gives scores for the following categories:

PCMark
Memories
TV and Movies
Gaming
Music
Communications
Productivity
HDD

For a detailed description of each one of these tests, please download and read the PCMark Vantage Reviewer’s Guide.

You can see the results for each category below. We are not going to compare the results for the Memories and HDD suites.

This benchmarking was done using the motherboard on-board video. Usually the motherboard with the fastest graphics engine achieves the highest score on this program. See the results below.

The only test where the two motherboards achieved a similar performance was on the Communications batch, and the only test where ECS GF8200A was faster than Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G was on the Productivity batch, where the reviewed motherboard achieved a score 3.84% higher than Sapphire’s model.

On all other batches Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G was faster than ECS GF8200A, maybe showing us that AMD 780G chipset is faster than nVidia GeForce 8200 (we will need to see the results from the other tests to confirm this). Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G achieved a PCMark score 11.57% higher, a TV and Movies score 7.92% higher, a Gaming score 18.90% higher and a Music score 6.05% higher than ECS GF8200A.

ECS GF8200A Black Series Motherboard Review
By Gabriel Torres on July 10, 2008	Page 6 of 13
Overall Performance: PCMark Vantage The new PCMark Vantage program simulates the use of real-world applications and gives scores for the following categories: PCMark Memories TV and Movies Gaming Music Communications Productivity HDD For a detailed description of each one of these tests, please download and read the PCMark Vantage Reviewer’s Guide. You can see the results for each category below. We are not going to compare the results for the Memories and HDD suites. This benchmarking was done using the motherboard on-board video. Usually the motherboard with the fastest graphics engine achieves the highest score on this program. See the results below. The only test where the two motherboards achieved a similar performance was on the Communications batch, and the only test where ECS GF8200A was faster than Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G was on the Productivity batch, where the reviewed motherboard achieved a score 3.84% higher than Sapphire’s model. On all other batches Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G was faster than ECS GF8200A, maybe showing us that AMD 780G chipset is faster than nVidia GeForce 8200 (we will need to see the results from the other tests to confirm this). Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G achieved a PCMark score 11.57% higher, a TV and Movies score 7.92% higher, a Gaming score 18.90% higher and a Music score 6.05% higher than ECS GF8200A.
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