PCMark Vantage
Futuremark’s newest benchmark suite, PCMark Vantage, was released just a week or two ago and we published an initial article on the new software that looked at some CPU performance as well as providing overviews for all the individual testing suites it uses and what kind of applications they emulate.  The new Vantage software takes a much more real-world user-scenario approach to testing that previous PCMark software and as such deserves more time our benchmark analysis.

If you haven’t yet done so, I would HIGHLY recommend you head over to my previous article that has a lot of detail on what these PCMark Vantage tests actually do.  That will give you a better understanding of the results to aid in your potential purchasing decision.

EVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLI Motherboard and Chipset Review - Motherboards 75

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In PCMark Vantage it’s obvious that the faster DDR3 memory speeds are showing real results: in the Memory and TV/Movies tests the 790i SLI Ultra motherboard, with accompanying DDR3-1333 memory, easily takes the lead.  The gaming score of the nForce 790i chipset doesn’t take the lead but is very close to the scores from the Gigabyte X48-DQ6.

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