Before we delve into the gaming related benchmarks, I need to remind you that the following tests are done on three different systems with three different graphics cards. So not only are you going to see differences in platform performance, it will also include variations in video performance.

So this is not a straight-forward comparison.

3DMark 2001SE, 3DMark 05

	ABIT AG8 (i915P) - Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR, RX700 Pro 128MB
	Chaintech V915P (i915P) - Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR, RX700 Pro 128MB
	Intel i915P with DDR2 - Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR2, RX700 Pro 128MB
	VIA K8T800 Pro - Athlon 64 3200+ (754 pin), 1GB DDR, R9800XT 256MB
	NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400 - Athlon XP3200+, 1GB DDR, R9600XT 128MB

In 3DMark 2001SE, we can see very little difference amoung the various Intel 915P motherboards. Though the ABIT AG8 has been slightly faster than the Chaintech V915P in the previous tests, it shows very little here.

	ABIT AG8 (i915P) - Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR, RX700 Pro 128MB
	Chaintech V915P (i915P) - Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR, RX700 Pro 128MB
	Intel i915P with DDR2 - Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR2, RX700 Pro 128MB
	VIA K8T800 Pro - Athlon 64 3200+ (754 pin), 1GB DDR, R9800XT 256MB
	NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400 - Athlon XP3200+, 1GB DDR, R9600XT 128MB

Unlike 3DMark 2001SE, the results in 3DMark 05 show the ABIT AG8 at the top of the heap performing the same as the Asus P5GD2 with DDR2 and slightly better than the Chaintech V915P.

Aquamark 3

	ABIT AG8 (i915P) - Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR, RX700 Pro 128MB
	Chaintech V915P (i915P) - Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR, RX700 Pro 128MB
	Intel i915P with DDR2 - Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR2, RX700 Pro 128MB
	VIA K8T800 Pro - Athlon 64 3200+ (754 pin), 1GB DDR, R9800XT 256MB
	NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400 - Athlon XP3200+, 1GB DDR, R9600XT 128MB

Like 3DMark 05, the results in Aquamark 3 show the ABIT AG8 performing on par with the DDR2 915P and slightly faster than the non-RAID version 915P DDR. Synthetic benchmarks tell us little of how real games would perform, so let’s take a look at some of those.