ASRock X79 Extreme9 Motherboard Review

By Dan Stoltz

SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Sp1 Memory Bandwidth Benchmark

Sisoftware Sandra 2011 SP5

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!

ASRock X79 Extreme9 Intel X79 Sandra 2012 SP1 Memory Benchmark Scores

Benchmark Results: The performance margin between our Intel X79 platforms in SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Sp1 is about as close as it can get. The ASRock X79 Extreme9 is only ~.2GB/s behind the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme. That ~.2GB/s is roughly .5% of the 40.6GB/s memory bandwidth of the ASRock X79 Extreme9.

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