Sisoft Sandra Benchmarks a much more synthetic compared to Futuremark's. The results obtained are more towards the raw performance of a system.

In the CPU test, there is less than 1% difference between the Shuttle and the Aopen915GM.

In the memory bandwidth benchmark, we see the difference show a bit more clearly between the 2 platforms. The Shuttle SD11G5 is around 2% slower in terms of memory performance. Not a big deal, but the difference is definitely there.

Let's check out how the SFF handles gaming.

With the 7800 GTX in the system, all games played very smoothly at 1024x768 High Quality settings. We faced no overheating or power issues either, even with this high-end video card. So this is definitely assuring for readers to know!

Anyway, the Shuttle lags behind just a little in Far Cry, holds the same performance in Half Life 2 but shows a 10% difference in Doom 3. We reran the benchmark a few times to ensure that it was accurate. One explanation would be that since the Aopen has better Memory performance as seen from the Sisoft Sandra Tests, and that Doom 3 is very memory bandwidth sensitive, this difference is largely due to the difference in memory bandwidth.