Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480

Name: Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 - Page 6
Brand: Sapphire

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, October 24, 2005, 11:00 PM EDT

PC World Magazine's WorldBench 5.0 is a new breed of Business and Professional application benchmark, poised to replace the aging and no-longer supported Content Creation and Business Winstone tests. WorldBench 5.0 consists of a number of performance modules that each utilize one, or a group of, popular applications to gauge performance. Below we have the results from WB 5's Photoshop 7 and Office XP SP2 modules, recorded in seconds. Lower times indicate better performance.

PC World's World Bench 5.0: Photoshop 7 & Office XP Modules

More Real-World Application Performance

WorldBench 5.0's Photoshop and Office XP performance module reported contrasting scores, at least with regard to the AMD powered systems. In the Photoshop 7 test, the Sapphire PI-A9RX480 nudged ahead of its nForce 4 powered competitor by just one second, and both AMD based systems smoked the Pentium D. In the Office XP test, however, the Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI slightly outpaced the Sapphire PI-A9RX480, besting the Radeon Xpress 200 based Sapphire board by about three seconds. The Intel powered combatant was once again outclassed by both of the AMD powered systems.

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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