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RightMark Memory

Read Bandwidth

The Gigabyte 6-Quad N680SLI did very well at the RightMark read bandwidth test; taking five of the six top spots, with a significant lead!.

At stock speeds, with the new BIOS, it slightly outpaced the second place place Asus P5N32-E.

Write Bandwidth

The Write test was not as kind to the N680SLI - this time it took third and fourth place for overclocked results, however, with the new BIOS, it managed to take first place for stock results.

Latency

There is something wrong with the top two latency figures. I simply do not believe those results, as I don't see how the latency could be THAT good with an off-board memory controller. No other board got figures that low, so I think there may be something off with the RightMark latency test.

At stock speeds, where the results made sense had the N680SLI-DQ6 turn in very good results, beating several overclocked results from competing boards.

Bandwidth

When I originally wrote this review, I had to write

"I don't know why, but the N680SLI-DQ6 did very poorly in the RightMark memory bandwidth test, scoring dead last at stock speeds, and not faring well at all at overclocked speeds."

Well, the new BIOS Gigabyte sent us made quite a difference, resulting in a 23% improvement in RightMark memory bandwidth test at stock speeds, and a roughly 5% difference when overclocked.