Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X Review

x264 Benchmark

Video conversion is an extremely strenuous ordeal for a processor, but it’s something that a system using an APU may very well be tasked with. As such, the x264 Benchmark gives a great insight into how each processor would deal with such a work load.

The Sniper again performs pretty similar to the more basic board here at stock levels. We do get more interesting results from the overclocked runs on the cheaper board as the first pass performs better, whilst the second pass performs worse, resulting in a slightly lower average overall. The Sniper on the other hand excels when we increase the clocks.

wPrime

Overclocking does lead to some more significant gains here for the Sniper. Again with the cheaper board, the results are inconsistent, showing it isn’t as stable overclocking as the Sniper, which should be expected really.

Cinebench

Cinebench here shows more or less identical scores over the OpenGL runs. The CPU runs do perform better on the overclocked Sniper which is expected due to the higher clock speeds.