ECS A790GXM-A Black Series Motherboard Review

3DMark06 Professional

3DMark06 measures Shader 3.0 (i.e. DirectX 9.0c) performance. We ran this software under its default configuration. For this test we also included the result achieved by a 64-bit Sapphire HD 3450 card installed on the motherboard PCI Express x16 slot and disabling the motherboard’s on-board video, so we can have an idea of the performance of a very low-end video card compared to the on-board video of the reviewed motherboard. We also enabled Hybrid Graphics, i.e. configured our Radeon HD 3450 to work in parallel with the on-board video in CrossFire mode, to see if there was any performance gain. The results you can see below.

On 3DMark06 the reviewed motherboard from ECS achieved a performance 26.55% higher than Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G (AMD 780G) and 143.77% higher than ECS GF8200A Black Series (nVidia GeForce 8200).

A very low-end Radeon HD 3450 video card was “only” 14.32% faster than the on-board video provided by AMD 790GX. Usually even very low-end video cards are far faster than on-board video solutions and it is a surprise to see an on-board video almost at the same level of an entry-level add-on card.

Enabling Hybrid CrossFire technology – which makes Radeon HD 3450 to work in parallel with the on-board video to increase performance – performance increased 54% compared to the Radeon HD 3450 alone with the on-board video disabled. This is impressive, because this 50%+ performance boost is gained absolutely for free.

ECS A790GXM-A Black Series Motherboard Review
By Gabriel Torres on September 11, 2008	Page 7 of 13
3DMark06 Professional 3DMark06 measures Shader 3.0 (i.e. DirectX 9.0c) performance. We ran this software under its default configuration. For this test we also included the result achieved by a 64-bit Sapphire HD 3450 card installed on the motherboard PCI Express x16 slot and disabling the motherboard’s on-board video, so we can have an idea of the performance of a very low-end video card compared to the on-board video of the reviewed motherboard. We also enabled Hybrid Graphics, i.e. configured our Radeon HD 3450 to work in parallel with the on-board video in CrossFire mode, to see if there was any performance gain. The results you can see below. On 3DMark06 the reviewed motherboard from ECS achieved a performance 26.55% higher than Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G (AMD 780G) and 143.77% higher than ECS GF8200A Black Series (nVidia GeForce 8200). A very low-end Radeon HD 3450 video card was “only” 14.32% faster than the on-board video provided by AMD 790GX. Usually even very low-end video cards are far faster than on-board video solutions and it is a surprise to see an on-board video almost at the same level of an entry-level add-on card. Enabling Hybrid CrossFire technology – which makes Radeon HD 3450 to work in parallel with the on-board video to increase performance – performance increased 54% compared to the Radeon HD 3450 alone with the on-board video disabled. This is impressive, because this 50%+ performance boost is gained absolutely for free.
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