990FX vs Z87 Sata 6

Hello /Tek/

Planning to buy myself an AMD FX-8350 for my first build and was wondering about the AMD 990FX chipset in relation to Intel's Z87/Z77. My question is this; is the Intel chipset's sata 6 faster than the AMD? In real terms, would a Samsung 840 pro be faster on the Z87 than the 990FX? If the difference isn't that big, then i'm one happy AMD customer :D

Thanks

I'm sure the difference is not worth mentioning.

I believe toms hardware did a suite of tests a while back and found that intel's SATA controllers were top notch, but AMD's came a close second. The other brands like Maxtor and such were often beat by SATA II controllers, which was sad. I didn't read the entire article since i was at work at the time but The difference between the AMD and Intel SATA controllers was minimal, but most third party controllers just didn't cut it.

Well i own a FX8350 and a Samsung 840 pro 128GB SSD.

here are the speeds i get from it, without any windows tweaks. The speeds from the fabrick are read 530MB/s and write 390MB/s, so i don't get the full speed. but it still performs very well, notice i have a 970 chipset board but this should not matter much.

 

Found the article, linked you the "final" tallies for the controllers.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/storage-controller-performance-ssd,3540-7.html

I meant Marvell not maxtor :P

I've made some benchmarks using three SSDs (HyperX 5K 240GB) in RAID 5 created using MDADM under Linux Ubuntu 12.04 Server on:

  • GA-Z87X-UD3H (Intel i5-4570) max. sequential read 1091 MB/s;
  • GA-990FXA-UD5 (AMD FX-8350) max. sequential read 1179 MB/s.

But under Windows 8 with same setup GA-Z87X-UD3H was faster by 10-15 percent (boot speed, synthetic benchmarks).