USB 3.0 | SATA 6G performance
HDD SSD performance
So here's where I will get a little lazy charts wise. With the new SATA3 6G controller and USB 3.0 controller I also wanted to add some SSD performance numbers measured on both these interfaces. Putting these in nicely styled charts would be better, but with technology so new we just do not have anything out there yet to compare to.
USB 3.0 performance 1024 KB Read MB/sec Write MB/secMSI 890GX | X4 965 132 108ASUS Maximus II Ex | 870 178 134ASUS C4F 890FX | X6 1095T 181 156ASUS 890GX |X4 965 195 175ASRock X58 Extreme3 | 980X 195 173ASUS R III Ex | 980X 200 155Above you can see a N002 series A-DATA Solid State Drive running over the USB 3.0 connector on the motherboard. As you can see, really good and solid USB 3.0 performance.
| SATA6G 1024KB AHCI | Read MB/sec | Write MB/sec |
| ASUS C4F 890FX | X6 1095T | 261 | 159 |
| ASUS 890GX |X4 965 | 265 | 176 |
| ECS H55H-I Core i5 661 | 265 | 184 |
| ECS A890GXM-A |X4 965 | 266 | 174 |
| MSI 890GX | X4 965 | 267 | 178 |
| ASUS R III Ex | 980X | 271 | 180 |
| ASRock X58 Extreme3 | 980X | 277 | 186 |
And here we connected the same SSD to the SATA 6G device controller. Now a small note is in order here, we run our tests in AHCI mode which is typically a little faster in peak bandwidth for SSDs opposed to HDDs. As you can see, that performance is definitely leading.
Right, let's go check out some games and their performance.
