8 - Memory, FPU and transcoding Performance

Memory test

Everest has an excellent tool to measure memory bandwidth, surprisingly the GF8200 has to forfeit a little bit.

Mandel FPU test

The Mandel FPU benchmark measures double precision (also known as 64-bit) floating-point performance through the computation of several frames of the popular "Mandelbrot" fractal. The code behind this benchmark method is written in Assembly, and it is extremely optimized for every popular AMD and Intel processor core variants by utilizing the appropriate x86 or SSE2 instruction set extension.

Now if you come from the Commodore 64 / Amiga era like me, you can probably remember rendering Mandelbrot graphics, and it took a full day to complete an image. Amazing where we are right now as the same set of calculations can be done in seconds & even real-time.

FPU Mandel test again is HyperThreading, multi-processor (SMP) and multi-core aware. Here's where the Quad core  processors really kick in. Phenom however was showing really impressive stuff, close to the Q6600. The GF8200A mainboard is better than the 780G for some reason.
 

Multi-threaded Video Transcoding VC-1 to WMV9

Every now and then you see an anomaly in benchmarks, this was the one for this mainboard. We ran is multiple times, reset the system, checked parameters & settings yet everything was setup equal to the 780G mainboard. The Transcoding results where off the chart, in favor for the GF8200A mainboard. No clue why though.