USB3.0 Chipset Thoroughput Performance Round Up Linus Tech Tips
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Today I'm going to be testing the maximum thoroughput of a few different popular USB3.0 chipsets including the native one on the new AMD A75 chipset for their socket FM1 APU platform.
This Linus Tech Tips video provides a hands-on round-up of USB 3.0 chipset throughput across several popular controllers and storage configurations. The host sets up a testing matrix that includes the native AMD A75 USB 3.0 controller on the FM1 platform, the ASMedia USB 3.0 controller on an Asus board, the NEC Renaissance controller from earlier NEC USB 3.0 generations, and a GoFlex USB 3.0 adapter paired with different drives. He uses a Patriot Wildfire SSD, a Seagate FreeAgent USB 3.0 drive, a Mushkin Ventura Pro USB 3.0 stick, and a mechanical 5400 RPM Seagate drive to compare high-end SSDs, flash drives, and mechanical storage. The first round of results comes from the Asus A75 platform, where the measured transfer rates for a 1 GB file are around 34 to 36 MB/s on the ASMedia controller, indicating a chipset limitation for large file transfers. In parallel, the GoFlex with the Wildfire SSD tops the results with roughly 125 MB/s, while the Ventura Pro hard drive caps around 67 MB/s and the mechanical drive around 53 MB/s. He notes that the USB 2.0 reference delivers much lower performance across the same setups, highlighting the USB 3.0 advantage. After swapping to an Intel platform for USB 2.0 reference testing, he also benchmarks the Renaissance controller and references ongoing results, concluding that the Renaissance and ASMedia controllers can achieve substantially higher throughput than the USB 2.0 baseline, with the Wildfire adapter showing no bottleneck in this mix. The conclusion emphasizes that the AMD A75 USB 3.0 controller appears to be the bottleneck among the tested solutions, while the Renaissance controller demonstrates strong performance, and the ASMedia controller sits in a favorable middle to high range depending on the drive. Overall, the video presents a practical, if not perfectly scientific, comparison that helps viewers gauge which USB 3.0 controller combinations are best for high-throughput data backups and transfers, with the caveat that exact numbers are approximate and vary by configuration.
Topics · technology · hardware-benchmarks · usb-testing · computer-hardware
Questions answered
- Which USB 3.0 controller offers the best throughput with a high performance SSD like the GoFlex Wildfire?
- Based on the tested results, the GoFlex with the Wildfire SSD shows the highest throughput around 125 MB/s on the tested USB 3.0 setup, suggesting strong performance with that configuration.
- Does the AMD A75 USB 3.0 controller bottleneck high throughput devices in this comparison?
- Yes, the AMD A75 USB 3.0 controller appears to bottleneck multiple configurations in this test, with lower transfer rates observed compared to other controllers like the Renaissance and ASMedia in several scenarios.