Review: AMD 690G motherboard showdown - ASUS v Sapphire

Multi-threaded benchmarks

Our encoding tests show the three boards to be roughly equal when it comes to WAV encoding.

In DivX, however, the older ASUS M2NPV-VM, centring on nForce 430, has a very slight lead over its stable mate based on AMD 690G.

With Cinebench and POV-Ray, all three motherboards achieve scores within 1% of each other, with the M2NPV-VM holding a slim lead in each case.