ASUS F1A75-M Pro Review - Micro-ATX Llano at $110

3D Movement Algorithm Test

The algorithms in 3DPM employ both uniform random number generation or normal distribution random number generation, and vary in various amounts of trigonometric operations, conditional statements, generation and rejection, fused operations, etc.  The benchmark runs through six algorithms for a specified number of particles and steps, and calculates the speed of each algorithm, then sums them all for a final score.  This is an example of a real world situation that a computational scientist may find themselves in, rather than a pure synthetic benchmark.  The benchmark is also parallel between particles simulated, and we test the single thread performance as well as the multi-threaded performance.

While the F1A75-M Pro is the top A75 in Single Thread and the bottom A75 in Multithread for our 3DPM tests, neither results are vastly different from the other A75 boards, as expected.

WinRAR x64 3.93 - link

With 64-bit WinRAR, we compress the set of files used in the USB speed tests. WinRAR x64 3.93 attempts to use multithreading when possible.

The F1A75-M Pro secures top spot in our WinRAR benchmark for A75, beating the F1A75-I Deluxe by eight seconds.

FastStone Image Viewer 4.2 - link

FastStone Image Viewer is a free piece of software I have been using for quite a few years now.  It allows quick viewing of flat images, as well as resizing, changing color depth, adding simple text or simple filters.  It also has a bulk image conversion tool, which we use here.  The software currently operates only in single-thread mode, which should change in later versions of the software.  For this test, we convert a series of 170 files, of various resolutions, dimensions and types (of a total size of 163MB), all to the .gif format of 640x480 dimensions.

Somehow the FastStone test gave a score which was a lot lower than the other A75 boards.  This result was extremely repeatable.

Sorenson Squeeze 6.0 - link

Sorenson Squeeze is a professional video encoder, complete with a vast array of options. For this test, we convert 32 HD videos, each a minute long and approximately 42 MB in size, to WMV 512KBps format.  Squeeze can encode multiple videos at once, one for each thread.

On the lower powered systems, we see a wider spread of times for our Squeeze test, depending on the background software and/or other processes deciding to eat CPU time from a full install including vendor software.  The F1A75-M Pro performs similarly to the A75-UD4H in this regard.