Test Results

Since I added and dropped a few tests to the stock clock testing suite it is hard to compare these boards with the AMD options included in the larger chart. Focusing on just the P55 boards, though, shows a few trends. The most obvious is the ECS P55H-A lagging behind in most of the benchmarks due to running the memory at DDR3-1333 instead of DDR3-1600 like the rest of the boards. The second is how wildly inconsistent the MSI P55-GD65 was throughout the tests. It started off strong with the Sandra 2009 Aggregate Bandwidth test but it was slower than even the ECS P55H-A in the Super Pi 32M test, a memory bandwidth test. The MSI P55-GD65 also lost to all boards in the 3DMark 2006 test and the Unigine Heaven benchmark which was incredibly consistent in score reproduction. The real stars of this show were the Gigabyte and EVGA P55 options, both boards trading blows and consistently scoring well. Regardless though, in the end we are talking about result deviations that differ by a few percentage points.