Benchmarks: ScienceMark, PiFast and Crypto
We start with memory bandwidth and latency analysis, courtesy of ScienceMark 2.0.
abit's KN9 SLI sits between the nForce 590 SLI-based Foxconn board and its fellow nForce 570 SLI-based MSI board in terms of bandwidth. However, responsible benchmarkers that we are, we must point out that bandwidth results in ScienceMark proved erratic. Sometimes they were low, sometimes they were in the middle and sometimes they were more like we'd expect. Making sure the board wasn't playing us for fools, we fired up SiSoftware's Sandra to see what its memory benchmark said. Sandra was much more consistent, suggesting a benchmark-related discrepancy.
No such trouble with the latency test, however, with the KN9 SLI beating ATI and MSI, and keeping up with the Foxconn Tritium board.
Mmmm, pi. Abit's KN9 SLI churns out ten million of pi's infinite string of digits in a mere 44.84 seconds. While rather nippy, it does put it in last position compared with the three other boards.
The test board whips through our cryptography test in good time, losing out only to the ATI Sturgeon reference board and so keeping in front of its nForce 500 brethren.
