Intel P67 SATA3 6Gbps Controller vs AMD 890FX Controller Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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Now, this is something I've wanted to test since the Intel SSD 510 series
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drives came out, and I finally got a chance to do it. I replaced on my test
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bench my Intel P67A
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GD65, and I have put in a similar
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top-of-the-line AMD configuration with an 1100T, uh, the same RAM, same video
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card, and I replaced it with an 890 FX board from Gigabyte. This is actually
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the 890 FXA UD5. Now, what's interesting
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about 890 FX boards is that they all have SATA 36 GB per second. And unlike
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P67 boards, which have anywhere from 2 to four, with only two of them running
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off the Intel chipset, and the other two usually running off a third party
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chipset, all six of the SATA 3 6 GB per
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second ports on an AMD 890FX board are
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running off of the chipset. So you can run up to six Theta 3 6 GB per second
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drives. But what is the performance of
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the AMD chipset solution versus the Intel one? So I have attempted to at
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least give us some idea of what the answer would be. So here on the left you
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can see the AMD score and on the right you can see my saved Intel score with a
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single drive running at SATA 36 GB per second. So you can see for reads, the
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AMD controller doesn't quite hit the same sequential read
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speeds, whereas everything else is actually fairly similar. So for random
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performance, the AMD controller is on par. And for sequential reads, it falls
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behind a little bit and other than that, it's pretty much right there. So, as
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long as the CPU you choose is a good performer compared to whatever Intel
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platform would have been equivalent, it looks like if you're running a SATA 36
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GB per second drive such as this one, there's not going to be too much of a
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disadvantage other than just this one tiny thing uh to running an AMD
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motherboard based on 890 FX. So, thanks for checking out this video on Linus
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