Futuremark 3DMark06 1.0.2	Source: FutureMark

3DMark06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests. 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests t reliably measure next generation gaming performance today.

Futuremark 3DMark06 1.1.0 Overall: Points Ranking Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 (P55 133/1333) 14877 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R (P55 133/1333) 14916 ASUS P7P55D Deluxe (P55 133/1333) 14942 CPU: Points Ranking Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 (P55 133/1333) 4155 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R (P55 133/1333) 4162 ASUS P7P55D Deluxe (P55 133/1333) 4169

Gigabyte's GA-P55-UD3R is right in the middle in Futuremark's 3DMark 06, which tests most of the motheboard's major features. Intel's P55 Express chipset seems to be pretty stable between different motherboard implementations.

Futuremark 3DMark Vantage 1.0.1	Source: FutureMark

3DMark06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests. 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests to reliably measure next generation gaming performance today.

Futuremark 3DMark Vantage 1.0.1 Performance Overall: (P) Points Ranking Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 (P55 133/1333) 7499 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R (P55 133/1333) 7522 ASUS P7P55D Deluxe (P55 133/1333) 7545 CPU score: Points Ranking Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 (P55 133/1333) 12153 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R (P55 133/1333) 12363 ASUS P7P55D Deluxe (P55 133/1333) 12475

3DMark Vantage shows a lot of the traits as 3DMark06, with the GA-P55-UD3R again in the middle of the pack.

Sierra FEAR 1.08	Source: Sierra

FEAR is Sierra's latest first person shooter which relies heavily on DirectX 9 features. With its "Soft Shadows" feature enabled, even the fastest videocards run at a crawl, FEAR is definitely the new benchmark for future FPS games to follow.

Sierra FEAR 1.08 Minimum 640x480: Points Ranking Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 (P55 133/1333) 635 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R (P55 133/1333) 637 ASUS P7P55D Deluxe (P55 133/1333) 636 Maximum 1024x768: Points Ranking Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 (P55 133/1333) 173 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R (P55 133/1333) 175 ASUS P7P55D Deluxe (P55 133/1333) 174

The GA-P55-UD3R's PCI Express performance is even less of a variable now that the videocards are handled directly by the Intel Core i5 CPU. All three motherboards here have identical performance.