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 measures 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 | Read MB/sec | Write MB/sec |
| ASUS R III Ex | 980X | 200824 | 155866 |
| ASUS 890GX |X4 965 | 195938 | 175066 |
| ASUS Maximus II Ex | 870 | 178165 | 134217 |
| MSI 890GX | X4 965 | 132888 | 108022 |
Above 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, pretty solid performance, but we did see a bit of a drop off at the write performance.
| SATA6G 1024KB AHCI |
Read MB/sec |
Write MB/sec |
| ASUS R III Ex | 980X | 271146 | 180158 |
| MSI 890GX | X4 965 | 267099 | 178956 |
| ECS A890GXM-A |X4 965 | 266862 | 174457 |
| ECS H55H-I Core i5 661 | 265777 | 184703 |
| ASUS 890GX |X4 965 | 265121 | 176990 |
And here we connected the same SSD towards the SATA 6G device. Now a small note is in order here, we run our tests in AHCI mode which is a little faster for SSDs opposed to HDDs. As you can see that performance is definitely stunning.
Right, let's go check out some games and their performance.
