Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Review

Written by Paul Goodhead

November 7, 2011 | 10:50

Tags: #a75 #best #fm1 #fm1-motherboard #itx #llano-motherboard #overclocking #platinum #quickest

Companies: #pure #sapphire #zotac

Media Benchmarks

Download from: bit-tech.net

We've developed our own suite of benchmarks using real-world and open-source applications to simulate how PCs are actually used. The suite comprises an image editing test using Gimp, a video encoding test using Handbrake, and a multi-tasking test using 7-Zip to archive and encrypt a large batch of files while an HD movie plays in mplayer.

A score of 1,000 means that the test system is as fast as our reference PC, which used a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 at stock speed, 2GB of Corsair 1,066MHz DDR2 memory, a 250GB Samsung SpinPoint P120S hard disk and an Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP motherboard. The scoring system is linear, so a machine scoring 1,200 points is 20 per cent faster than our reference system. Equally, a system scoring 1,200 is 4 per cent faster than a system scoring 1,150.

GIMP Image Editing

Website: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
Far from being some kind of pr0n-filtering tool, Gimp is an open source image editing application - Gimp is an acronym of GNU Image Manipulation Program. Our test simulates how well a PC can manipulate a collection of large digital photos, and achieving a low time requires a PC with a powerful CPU, plenty of quick memory and efficient hard disk access.

Image Editing

Gimp

  • Sapphire Pure Platinum A75
  • Gigabyte GA-A75M-UD2H
  • MSI A75MA-G55
  • Zotac A75-ITX WiFi
  • ASRock A75 Pro4
    • 936
    • 1124
    • 925
    • 1111
    • 901
    • 1069
    • 900
    • 900
    • 889
    • 946
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500
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1250
Points, higher is better
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Read our performance analysis.

Handbrake H.264 Encoding

Website: HandBrake
We use the open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video encoder Handbrake to encode an HD video using the H.264 codec. This primarily tests multi-threaded CPU and memory subsystem performance.

Video Encoding

Handbrake

  • MSI A75MA-G55
  • Sapphire Pure Platinum A75
  • ASRock A75 Pro4
  • Gigabyte GA-A75M-UD2H
  • Zotac A75-ITX WiFi
    • 1553
    • 1776
    • 1551
    • 1859
    • 1530
    • 1531
    • 1521
    • 1815
    • 1497
    • 1497
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500
1000
1500
2000
Points, higher is better
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Read our performance analysis.
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