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.
28000 is a great score for only having 4-cores!
MaxxMem
MaxxMem is a memory benchmark, it is primarily influenced by memory speed and timings and secondarily by cache size and speed.
And there you have it, Z77 completely destroys X79 when it comes to memory performance.
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.
For only being a quad-core processor it sure can put up some solid scores.
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.
Not quite the scores we saw with the X79 platform, but they are solid none the less.
Superpi
This benchmark tests single-threaded performance by counting iterations of pi.
Just a few years ago a heavy clocked core-2 processor struggled to break 10 seconds!
Enough of that stocked clocked stuff. Its time for the exciting stuff, overclocking.
