3Dmark Vantage
While 3Dmark Vantage is generally seen as a benchmark for video cards, it can also be used in order to determine processor performance by running the CPU tests only. It gives you a great idea of performance since Vantage takes advantage of extra processor cores and hyper threading.
MaxxMem
MaxxMem is a memory benchmark, it is primarily influenced by memory speed and timings and secondarily by cache size and speed.
Oddly memory performance on X79 is pretty terrible in Maxxmem. I tried 5 different sets of memory and numbers were very close with all of them and the memory ran much better on an 1155 platform. I am not sure what is going on here.
Cinebench 11.5
Cinebench 11.5 is a CPU benchmark, it doesn’t care much about memory speed, it doesn’t care all that much about cache size or speed, it case about getting data into the CPU and calculating it. Hence it is a good test of how efficient a motherboard is at doing just that: Crunching data.
That is pretty impressive when a hex core processor can keep up with an octo-core processor!
Wprime
This benchmark is a great indicator of processor performance. It can be set to any amount of threads so multiple cores and hyperthreading helps huge amounts in Wprime. Clock speeds are also a great indicator for improvements in Wprime.
Sandy Bridge-E is pretty darn impressive when it comes to multi-core performance. It just puts up amazingly fast numbers. You would need a very high clocked quad to beat these numbers.
Enough of that stocked clocked stuff. Its time for the exciting stuff, overclocking.
