The Cinebench testing suite followed. Rendering a 3D image is quite a difficult task so this is a good test of raw performance. It's multithreaded too so will fully utilise all the cores available to render the 300,000 polygons across around 2,000 objects in the scene.
Rather interestingly the A9DA-S trumped the Crosshair across the board here... a great result.
Cinebench.
The final desktop test was the x264 HD benchmark. This ‘real time’ video encoding test makes four passes over two different files to convert a DVD quality MPEG-2 video into an x264 video file. I took the average of each of the four results from the two groups to generate the final result.
Once again this is a multi threaded program so benefits from more cores. When overclocked the A9DA-S trades blows with the Crosshair losing out in the 1st pass but winning in the 2nd. At stock clocks however the A9DA-S loses out slightly in both passes.
1st pass.
2nd pass.
