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.
For comparions sake, you would need a 5.5ghz+ Quad core chip to get this kind of CPU score in vantage. Needless to say, there is a ton of power under the hood on these Hex core chips.
MaxxMem
MaxxMem is a memory benchmark, it is primarily influenced by memory speed and timings and secondarily by cache size and speed.
Sadly memory performance is not great on the X79 chipset when it comes to added latency. Read/write scores are very fast but that added latency built into this platform brings down the score.
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.
This board is slightly faster than the previously reviewed X79-UD3, although it is not too much more.
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.
Breaking 5 seconds at stock clocks for the 32m test is an impressive feat. I would have liked to have seen it break 150-seconds in 1024 but you can’t have it all.
Enough of that stocked clocked stuff. Its time for the exciting stuff, overclocking.
