ECS GF9300T-A Black Series Motherboard Review

3DMark06 Professional

3DMark06 measures Shader 3.0 (i.e., DirectX 9.0c) performance. We ran this software under its default configuration. For this test we also included the result achieved by a 64-bit Sapphire HD 3450 card installed in the motherboard PCI Express x16 slot while disabling the motherboard’s on-board video, so we can have an idea of the performance of a very low-end video card compared to the on-board video of the reviewed motherboard. We also enabled Hybrid Graphics, i.e., configured our Radeon HD 3450 to work in parallel with the on-board video in CrossFire mode, to see if there was any performance gain. The results you can see below.

GeForce 9300 achieved an outstanding performance, being the first time we’ve seen an on-board video solution achieving a performance similar to an add-on entry-level video card (this feat wasn’t accomplished even by AMD 790GX, which is the chipset with the fastest integrated video on the AMD side).

ECS GF9300T-A achieved a 3D performance 94% higher than Intel DG45ID (Intel G45), 326% higher than ECS GF7100PVT-M3 (GeForce 7100), 470% higher than MSI G31M3-F (Intel G31) and 487% higher than MSI G33M-FI (Intel G33).