Performance wise the 8K5A2+ is matched very evenly against the MSI KT3 Ultra 2, which is also based on the KT333 chip. Youll recall that this same board is pitted against the
Gigabyte 7VRXP and against the
MSI KT4 Ultra.
PCMark and SYSmark 2002:
Youll note that the PCMark CPU score is almost identical between the two boards at ~0.5% difference. The Memory score is a different story with an almost 10% lead for the 8K5A2+.
Sysmark results are also very close together, though the 8K5A2+ still has a lead over the KT3 Ultra 2. Most boards show a greater deviation on the office productivity results, and here the 8K5A2+ shows a 7% performance advantage over the KT3 Ultra2.
Sisoft Sandra
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| Sandra CPU, MultiMedia & Memory |
On Sandra, the results are less cut and dry. Aside from the memory bandwidth benchmark, the 8K5A2+ is actually a little slower than KT3 Ultra 2, though the difference is only around 1%.
What insight can we draw from these results? Only that the KT333 boards have very very close performance. In fact, many motherboards using the same chipset often have very close results, though there will be some deviance depending on what layout tweaks the engineers may have used to try and squeeze every possible speed gain.
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