Asus Maximus III Formula Review

Written by Richard Swinburne

December 7, 2009 | 11:29

Tags: #benchmark #connect #cpu #formula #gamer #iii #lynnfield #maximus #motherboard #oc #overclock #overclocking #p55 #perform #performance #republic-of-gamer #result #review #rog

Companies: #asus #intel

Lavalys Everest 5.0.1667 Memory Performance

Website: Lavalys

Everest Memory Performance Test

Ordered by Read performance

  • Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4
  • Asus Maxmius III Formula
  • MSI P55 GD65
  • Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
  • Asus P7P55 Deluxe
    • 15765.0
    • 11815.0
    • 15442.0
    • 13523.0
    • 10864.0
    • 15284.0
    • 12907.0
    • 10756.0
    • 14604.0
    • 12514.0
    • 10465.0
    • 14453.0
    • 12309.0
    • 10253.0
    • 13827.0
0
2500
5000
7500
10000
12500
15000
17500
MB/s (higher is better)
  • Read MB/s
  • Write MB/s
  • Copy MB/s

Everest Memory Performance Test (OC)

Ordered by Read performance

  • Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
  • Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4
  • Asus Maxmius III Formula
  • MSI P55 GD65
  • Asus P7P55 Deluxe
    • 19533.0
    • 16048.0
    • 22824.0
    • 19431.0
    • 15883.0
    • 21618.0
    • 19377.0
    • 15961.0
    • 22204.0
    • 18894.0
    • 15341.0
    • 20514.0
    • 16764.0
    • 15584.0
    • 19361.0
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15000
20000
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MB/s (higher is better)
  • Read MB/s
  • Write MB/s
  • Copy MB/s

Everest Memory Latency Test

  • Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4
  • Asus Maxmius III Formula
  • MSI P55 GD65
  • Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
  • Asus P7P55 Deluxe
    • 52.0
    • 36.6
    • 52.6
    • 35.3
    • 53.1
    • 38.0
    • 53.9
    • 35.3
    • 55.1
    • 41.7
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Nanoseconds (lower is better)
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Memory performance is pretty good - we accept the Gigabyte boards will be faster when overclocked due to their marginally higher base clock, affording a slightly faster CPU-NB function. However at stock speeds the Asus board is certainly more poky than its P7P55D Deluxe brother and squeezes out a few extra MB/s than the MSI GD65 and Gigabyte UD5.

SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2009 SP4 (15.125) Pro Business

Website: Sisoftware

SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth

  • Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4
  • Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
  • Asus Maxmius III Formula
  • Asus P7P55 Deluxe
  • MSI P55 GD65
    • 16791.2
    • 23794.5
    • 16566.0
    • 24467.0
    • 16414.0
    • 24432.0
    • 16052.0
    • 19174.8
    • 16043.3
    • 22428.5
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10000
15000
20000
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MB/s (higher is better)
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

SiSoft Sandra Memory Latency

  • Asus Maxmius III Formula
  • MSI P55 GD65
  • Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
  • Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4
  • Asus P7P55 Deluxe
    • 74
    • 49
    • 74
    • 53
    • 76
    • 49
    • 78
    • 50
    • 81
    • 59
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  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Sisoft Sandra isn't quite so accomodating at stock speeds, but overclocked it more or less matches the UD5 in terms of performance, despite the ~100MHz or so deficit in memory and CPU-NB frequency. The latency also backs this up - the Asus Maximus III Formula shaves a couple of nanoseconds here against the Gigabyte too, however, against the MSI with only a 1,900MHz memory speed it competes equally.
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