Asus P5GD2 Premium
5. Performance Part 2
PCMark04
PCMark04 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including very large applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark04 to be a smaller installation as well as to report very accurate results. You may download a shareware version of PCMark04 from Futuremark.
P4 3GHz w/ MSI 915G |
P4 3GHz w/ Asus P5AD2-E Premium |
P4 3GHz w/ Asus P5GD2 Premium |
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PCMarks |
3949 | 4586 | 4787 |
File Compression |
4.1 MB/s | 4.1 MB/s | 4.5 MB/s |
File Encryption |
55.0 MB/s | 55.9 MB/s | 56.8 MB/s |
File Decompression |
35.9 MB/s | 35.4 MB/s | 36.3 MB/s |
Image Processing |
14.6 MPixels/s | 14.5 MPixels/s | 15.0 MPixels/s |
Virus Scanning |
2576.2 MB/s | 2451.5 MB/s | 3234 MB/s |
Grammar Check |
2.1 KB/s | 2.1 KB/s | 2.2 KB/s |
File Decryption |
85.7 MB/s | 86.3 MB/s | 86.6 MB/s |
Audio Conversion |
2340.6 KB/s | 2353.1 KB/s | 2361.1 KB/s |
Web Page Rendering |
5.3 Pages/s | 5.1 Pages/s | 5.5 Pages/s |
WMV Video Compression |
51.3 FPS | 52.2 FPS | 51.6 FPS |
DivX Video Compression |
65.6 FPS | 67.9 FPS | 68.4 FPS |
Physics Calculation and 3D |
80.6 FPS | 164.4 FPS | 169.6 FPS |
Graphics Memory - 64 lines |
680.5 FPS | 2313.8 FPS | 2313.1 FPS |
The older 915P managed to bring the best out of our 3.0GHz Intel processor. WMV Video Compression was the only part of the PCMark04 System Test Suite where it was outperformed by the 925XE of P5AD2-E. All the other tests show significant differences.
3DMark01
You may download a shareware version of 3DMark 2001 from Futuremark.
In 3DMark01 the P5GD2 scored 15132 marks, 400 more than the P5AD2-E and 1000 more than the MSI 915G motherboards.
Aquamark03
Aquamark03 is available for download from Aquamark's official website.
In Aquamark3, the Asus mainboards seem to be equally powerful, and certainly more so when compared to the 915G from MSI which offers 8% lower performance.
