GIGABYTE F2A85X-UP4 AMD FM2 Motherboard Review

AMD SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance

There are a number of different Super Speed USB 3.0 host controllers out there. In order to know which ones perform the best we run a series of tests that will put the controller through the ringer and see how it comes out on the other side. Each of our motherboards uses a different Super Speed USB 3.0 controller and you can find the below.

CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for drives and enables rapid measurement of sequential and random read/write speeds. Note that CDM only supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with a queue depth of 32 (as noted) for the last listed benchmark score. This can skew some results in favor of controllers that also do not support NCQ.

Testing of the USB3 was done using the “Thermaltake BlacX 5G Hard Drive Docking Station . The drive used was an Corsair Force GT 240Gb SSD.

Benchmark Results: The GIGABYTE F2A85X-UP4 saw a significant jump in USB 3.0 performance over the GIGABYTE A75-D3H. The sequential read jumped from 196.3MB/s to 230.3MB/s and the sequential write jumped from 189.3MB/s to 236.4MB/s!

HD Tune Pro 5.00 is an extended version of HD Tune which includes
many new features such as write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting,
folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file
benchmark.

AMD SuperSpeed USB 3.0 HD Tune 5.0 Read Benchmark Results

AMD SuperSpeed USB 3.0 HD Tune 5.00 Write Benchmark Results

Testing of the USB3 was done using the “Thermaltake BlacX 5G Hard Drive Docking Station . The drive used was an Corsair Force GT 240Gb SSD.

Benchmark Results: Much like the above performance in CrystalDiskMark, HD Tune shows a very solid USB 3.0 performance increase between the AMD A75 chipset and the new AMD A85 chipset.