EPoX 5NVA+SLI (NF4 SLI Intel edition) Review3/9 Bluetooth 20 Aug 2005
Benchmarks PCmark2004
PCmark2004 tests a number of
important items in today's computing world. File Compression, Encryption,
Decryption, Audio Conversion, Web Page Rendering, WMV Video
Compression, DivX Video Compression, Physics Calculation and 3D, Graphics Memory
etc.
From the benchmarks below,
it is very apparent that PCmark2004 is using dual core to process multiple
instructions at the same time. As the NF4 SLI Intel edition chipset does not
support 820D, the results is not comparable to the two 955X boards. From the
break down as shown in the table below, it lost in all multithread tests.
In fact, in WMV and DivX compression tests, the NF4 SLI chipset seems to be a
bit weaker than the 955X counterparts.
System Test Suite
EPoX 5NVA+SLI
Gigabyte
GA-8I955X Royal
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2
Multithreaded Test 1 / File Compression
3.201 MB/s
6.2 MB/s
5.873MB/s
Multithreaded Test 1 / File Encryption
39.805 MB/s
80.69 MB/s
79.864 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 2 / File Decompression
27.856 MB/s
55.99 MB/s
56.170 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 2 / Image Processing
11.839 MPixels/s
23.9 MPixels/s
23.575 MPixels/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / Virus Scanning
2392.526 MB/s
4327.4 MB/s
4324.505 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / Grammar Check
2.136 KB/s
4.1 KB/s
4.008 KB/s
File Decryption
79.8 MB/s
80.28 MB/s
80.451 MB/s
Audio Conversion
2180.677 KB/s
2193.48 KB/s
2200.040 KB/s
Web Page Rendering
5.4 Pages/s
5.65 Pages/s
5.582 Pages/s
WMV Video Compression
42.931 FPS
68.3 FPS
66.556 FPS
DivX Video Compression
58.275 FPS
76.82 FPS
77.049 FPS
Physics Calculation and 3D
157.543 FPS
158.42 FPS
157.879 FPS
Graphics Memory - 64 Lines
2085.693 FPS
2039.48 FPS
1991.005 FPS
PCmark05
Results
System Test
Suite
HDD - XP
Startup
8.68 MB/s
Physics
and 3D
118.6 FPS
Transparent Windows
702.48 Windows/s
3D - Pixel
Shader
91.51 FPS
Web Page
Rendering
2.63 Pages/s
File
Decryption
61.4 MB/s
Graphics
Memory - 64 Lines
1153.11 FPS
HDD -
General Usage
5.89 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 1 / Audio Compression
897.84 KB/s
Multithreaded Test 1 / Video Encoding
128.06 KB/s
Multithreaded Test 2 / Text Edit
60.17 Pages/s
Multithreaded Test 2 / Image Decompression
10.39 MPixels/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / File Compression
1.89 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / File Encryption
15.55 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / HDD - Virus Scan
14.21 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / Memory Latency - Random 16 MB
8.56 MAccesses/s
HDD Test Suite
HDD - XP
Startup
8.89 MB/s
HDD -
Application Loading
7.28 MB/s
HDD -
General Usage
5.89 MB/s
HDD -
Virus Scan
77.5 MB/s
HDD - File
Write
56.72 MB/s
The results of the HDD tests are
quite good and it is on par with the NF4 SLI (K8) platforms.
