ASUS F1A75-M Pro AMD APU Motherboard Review

Network Throughput Testing

The Gigabit PCIe Ethernet controllers vary on each board, so it will be interesting to see what the performance is on all the boards. Each of the boards uses a different Gigabit Controller. Let’s take a look at what controller is on each of the boards.

• ASUS F1A75-M Pro – Realtek 8111E Gigabit LAN Controller
• ASUS P8Z68-V Pro – Intel 82579, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller

To test the Gigabit PCIe Ethernet controllers we used the NTttcp tool to test Ethernet Throughput and the CPU utilization of the various Ethernet controllers used on the AMD Motherboards. To do this properly we set up one machine as the server: in this test an Intel Core i7 970 system with an MSI Big Bang XPower motherboard acted as our Gigabit LAN server.

On the server side, we used the following Command Line for Gigabit PCIe Ethernet Testing:

Ntttcpr -m 4,0,<Client IP> -a 4 -l 256000 -n 30000

On the client side (the motherboard being tested), we used the following Command Line:

Ntttcps -m 4,0,<Server IP> -a 4 -l 256000 -n 30000

At the conclusion of each test we recorded the throughput and CPU utilization figures from the client screen as that is the system being tested.

Benchmark Results: The ASUS F1A75-M Pro has a slight edge in total throughput, leading the ASUS P8Z68-V Pro with 945.612MB/s throughput versus the 938.668MB/s. The Intel 82579 Gigabit LAN Controller on the P8Z68-V Pro used significantly less CPU power.