Performance: Part 2
For storage tests has been used ATTO Disk Benchmark. First test is M.2/NVMe performance. Results based on Patriot Hellfire 240GB SSD.
Maximum bandwidth in M.2 SSD test is a bit above 3000MB/s what is exactly what our test drive could make on other motherboards. It’s a good result and repeatable on both M.2 slots.
Second test is SATA 6G performance for what we’ve used Kingston Savage 240GB SATA SSD.
Results in ATTO are one of the best we’ve seen on SATA SSD. It’s about maximum possible on SATA controller. Maximum bandwidth passed 565MB/s!
I have to add that on this drive was installed operating system so there could be some performance drops and still result is great.
For USB 3.0/3.1 tests has been used Lexar DD512 Professional 512GB USB 3.0 drive.
Results in ATTO are high and above average but let’s say we’ve seen higher on other ASRock motherboards. It’s still not bad as not all competitve motherboards can pass 400MB/s using our Lexar drive.
Futuremark/UL 3DMark and VRMark so graphics card benchmarks and not only. Since physics tests are highly affected by the CPU and memory speed then we can see some differences between motherboards. In this case we can see a bit better results than on some other X299 motherboards. Differences are not big as in all tests we can see couple of points more but are still noteable.
In all tests the X299 Extreme4 performed well. In most tests results were as good or a bit better than on most other X299 motherboards we have had a chance to test so I’m pretty satified from the results and I can recommend this motherboard if you are looking for inexpensive but well performing base for your Skylake-X PC.
