Review: Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X

by Tarinder Sandhu on 4 February 2014, 10:30

Tags: Gigabyte (TPE:2376), AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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CPU-centric performance

You can evaluate how good a board the G1.Sniper is by taking a look at the A10-6800K results and comparing them against the ASRock Mini ITX. The blue line represents performance with the latest A10-7850K Kaveri APU in the socket.

Perhaps the biggest surprise is the performance of the Steamroller CPU - clocked in lower than the Piledriver CPU in the Richland APU - as the better efficiencies cannot mask the frequency shortfall.

Gigabyte and ASRock go toe-to-toe when setup with identical components. Stick the best Kaveri chip in and it zooms to the top of the chart.