AMD 890GX SB850 Chipset Debut: Phenom II X6 Ready

Name: AMD 890GX SB850 Chipset Debut: Phenom II X6 Ready - Page 5
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, March 02, 2010, 12:01 AM EDT

Next up, we ran a number of different test systems through Futuremark’s latest system performance evaluation tool, PCMark Vantage. PCMark Vantage runs through a host of different usage scenarios to simulate different types of workloads including High Definition TV and movie playback and manipulation, gaming, image editing and manipulation, music compression, communications, and productivity. Most of the tests are multi-threaded as well, so the tests can exploit the additional resources offered by a quad-core CPU.

Futuremark PCMark Vantage

Simulated Application Performance

The Asus and Gigabyte AMD 890GX-based motherboards we tested performed similarly in the PCMark Vantage benchmark. Overall, the Asus board had a slight edge, but they technically traded victories over one another depending on the particular test. The 890GX also performed about on-par with or slightly better than the 785G. We had suspected the 890GX would far a bit better here over the 785G due to its more powerful IGP, but Vantage didn't highlight the differences as much as he had initially thought it would. And somewhat lackluster drive performance held the 890GX systems back in areas like the productivity benchmark.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Phenom, Athlon, Chipset, AM3, IGP

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com