Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G Motherboard Review
3DMark06 Professional
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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 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. The results you can see below.
On 3DMark06 the reviewed motherboard from Sapphire achieved a performance 92.62% higher than GeForce 8200.
A very low-end Radeon HD 3450 video card was 46.04% faster than the on-board video provided by AMD 780G.
Enabling Hybrid CrossFire technology – which makes Radeon HD 3450 to work in parallel with the on-board video to increase performance – performance increased 20.86% compared to the Radeon HD 3450 alone with the on-board video disabled. This isn’t bad at all.