ASUS P7P55D Deluxe Lynnfield Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

Lavalys Everest Ultimate v5.02

Everest Ultimate is the most useful tool for any and all benchmarkers or overclockers. With the ability to pick up most voltage, temperature, and fan sensors on almost every motherboard available, Everest provides the ability to customize the outputs in a number of forms on your desktop. We selected two of Everest's seven CPU benchmarks: CPU Queen and FPU Mandel. According to Lavalys, CPU Queen simple integer benchmark focuses on the branch prediction capabilities and the misprediction penalties of the CPU. It finds the solutions for the classic "Queens problem" on a 10 by 10 sized chessboard. At the same clock speed theoretically the processor with the shorter pipeline and smaller misprediction penalties will attain higher benchmark scores. The FPU Mandel benchmark measures the double precision (also known as 64-bit) floating-point performance through the computation of several frames of the popular "Mandelbrot" fractal. Both tests consume less than 1 MB system memory, and are HyperThreading, multi-processor (SMP) and multi-core (CMP) aware.


In stock form, both motherboards are roughly equivalent in the CPU Queen benchmark, with a slight edge going towards the ASUS. But the situation is a fair bit different in FPU Mandel. Why? The reason is simple, the P7P55D Deluxe utilized a 1X higher multiplier throughout the test than the Intel board did. This is a likely a result of clever BIOS tuning by the ASUS engineers.


Lavalys Everest Ultimate v5.02

As part of its enthusiast favourite Cache & Memory Benchmark, Everest provides very useful and in-depth cache performance figures. For this chart, we have combined the read, write, and copy bandwidth figures to achieve an aggregate bandwidth figure for each cache stage.


With their most recent BIOS versions, both the ASUS and Intel motherboards are in a statistical dead heat across all three processor cache levels.


Lavalys Everest Ultimate v5.02

Everest Ultimate is the most useful tool for any and all benchmarkers or overclockers. With the ability to pick up most voltage, temperature, and fan sensors on almost every motherboard available, Everest provides the ability to customize the outputs in a number of forms on your desktop. In addition to this, the memory benchmarking utility provides a useful tool of measuring the changes to your memory sub-system.


The P7P55D Deluxe has a slight advantage across the board when it comes memory bandwidth compared to the Intel model, but really the difference can be attributed to this benchmark's wide results variance.


Surprisingly, the DP55KG trumps the ASUS motherboard when it comes to memory latency, clearly the Intel has more aggressive default secondary memory timings than the P7P55D DLX.


Now let's see if ScienceMark echoes these results.

ScienceMark v2.0

Although last updated almost 3 years ago, and despite its rudimentary interface, ScienceMark v2.0 remains a favorite for accurately calculating bandwidth on even the newest chipsets.


Unlike Everest, ScienceMark reveals the Intel motherboard to have a slight lead in memory bandwidth, but the difference is a mere 0.6%, so it's quite irrelevant.


ScienceMark does however supports Everest's memory latency results, with the DP55KG once again exhibiting lower latency than the ASUS board.


There's really not much to report here as both motherboards are performing within less than 1% of each other in these popular synthetic benchmarks. Will the results be any different in real-life applications? Let's find out.