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SUPERMICRO X8DA3

Test Results and Conclusion


So we've run our standard set of benchmarks on XP SP3.  Too bad Win7 isn't final yet...  Anyhow, below are the results shown with other Xeons and the latest Phenom II 955, also humming at 3.2GHz.  We test with HT on and off.  As you can see, having HT off only had a significant advantage in the DVD Shrink test.  Leaving it on caused DVD Shrink to slow to a near-crawl.

MB/CPU Mem

DVD Shrink 3.2*

WinRAR 3.62

Full Power

Idle Power

Memtest86: L1/ L2/ Main

Prime 95, last #

Super Pi Mod, 1M

Full CPU

Low CPU

X8DA3, 2x W5580, HT on 12GB DDR3-1333 2x 3-channel 19:00 3214 386 239 212 159604, unk, 42001 4.598 ms 12.984s
X8DA3, 2x W5580, HT off 12GB DDR3-1333 2x 3-channel 6:13 3157 331 201 201 159604, unk, 42001 4.417 ms 12.421s
M4A79T Deluxe, PhenomII X4 955 DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB 8:29 2359 212 162 102 39688, 17471, 8979 6.577 ms 21.422s
GA-MA790FXT-UD5P, PhenomII X4 955 DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB 8:39 2330 247 162 110 39688, 17471, 8979 6.569 ms 21.516s
X7DWA-N, 2x X5482 DDR2-667 FBD quad-ch 11:16 2092 -- 236 212 52461, unk, 20916 4.978 ms 15.047s
S5396, 2x X5450 DDR2-667 FBD quad-ch 9:17 1755 -- -- 199 49058, unk, 4095 5.331 ms 15.609s

*DVD is My Fellow Americans ripped to HDD.  DVD Shrink compresses the entire rip to 53.7%, with deep analysis, and the 'sharp' adaptive error compensation setting, to another HDD folder.  Analysis files deleted prior to tests.

MB/CPU Mem GPU Cinebench10 3D Mark03 3D Mark05 3D Mark06
OpenGL 1 CPU n CPU

CPU Test1

CPU Test2

CPU Test1

CPU Test2

CPU Test1

CPU Test2

X8DA3, 2x W5580, HT on 12GB DDR3-1333 2x 3-channel HD2400

 

-- 3635 23907 163.9 31.7 5.8 12.5 2.627 3.437
X8DA3, 2x W5580, HT off 12GB DDR3-1333 2x 3-channel HD2400 -- 3188 20596 143.7 24.6 6.0 9.5 2.425 3.161
M4A79T Deluxe, PhenomII X4 955 DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB HD2400 -- 2939 10450 180.0 41.2 7.1 13.3 1.593 2.308
GA-MA790FXT-UD5P, PhenomII X4 955 DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB HD2400 -- 2946 10456 180.2 41.1 7.0 13.3 1.587 2.311
X7DWA-N, 2x X5482 DDR2-667 FBD quad-ch 2x HD2400 Xfire 3112 3883 23570 186.8 34.8 8.0 11.7 2.626 3.110
X7DWA-N, 2x X5482 DDR2-667 FBD quad-ch HD2400 -- 3883 23570 186.8 34.8 8.0 11.7 2.626 3.110
S5396, 2x X5450 DDR2-667 FBD quad-ch HD2400 -- 3658 22421 130.6 22.3 6.2 7.8 2.500 3.044

 

MB/CPU Mem Everest Ultimate Edition
CL-RCD-RP-RAS Mem
Read
Mem
Write
Mem Copy Mem Latency
X8DA3, 2x W5580, HT on 12GB DDR3-1333 2x 3-channel 9-9-9-24 CR1 13646 MB/s 6660 MB/s 9988 MB/s 65.0 ns
X8DA3, 2x W5580, HT off 12GB DDR3-1333 2x 3-channel 9-9-9-24 CR1 14375 MB/s 6681 MB/s 10090 MB/s 64.8 ns
M4A79T Deluxe, PhenomII X4 955 DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB 11-11-11-30 CR1 8651 MB/s 6656 MB/s 9140 MB/s 52.9 ns
GA-MA790FXT-UD5P, PhenomII X4 955 DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB 11-11-11-30 CR1 8646 MB/s 6505 MB/s 9211 MB/s 53.6 ns
X7DWA-N, 2x X5482 DDR2-667 FBD quad-ch 5-5-5-15 3748 MB/s 6980 MB/s 5366 MB/s 103.1 ns
 
MB/CPU Mem Everest Ultimate Edition
CPU Queen CPU PhotoWorxx CPU ZLib CPU AES FPU Julia FPU Mandel FPU SinJulia
X8DA3, 2x W5580, HT on 12GB DDR3-1333 2x 3-channel 51413 29722 206197 KB/s 50956 24598 13131 11948
X8DA3, 2x W5580, HT off 12GB DDR3-1333 2x 3-channel 34383 26745 42293 KB/s 48593 18997 12303 7868
M4A79T Deluxe, PhenomII X4 955 DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB 19927 48299 86055 KB/s 23202 16150 10760 16589
GA-MA790FXT-UD5P, PhenomII X4 955 DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB 19975 48047 85797 KB/s 23211 16120 10761 16547
X7DWA-N, 2x X5482 DDR2-667 FBD quad-ch 34858 21270 160835 KB/s 47593 46628 22843 37859

Supermicro again produces a top-notch board for the latest and greatest of Intel Xeon processors.  Performance is superb, and motherboard layout is well-though out.  Perhaps the use of PCI-X or additional PCIe slots should have been considered in lieu of the PCI33.  For workstations and servers, PCI33 is of very little use especially with the audio already on-board.  Nevertheless, the numbers speak for themselves, and any other issue is simply pales in comparison to the outright beauty of the design, and stability of its performance.  We shall see how others stack up against this one!

 

 

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