Asus Maximus V Gene (Z77) Motherboard Ivy Bridge Review

Cinebench R11.5

CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more. CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It’s completely free.

To show the relational differences, we’ve pitted the 3770k against our trusty 2700k, and from the first test we can see that the Ivy Bridge based chip has a slight gain over the older generation at both stock and overclock speeds.

Super PI

Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point—up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss–Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.

Whether overclocked or at stock speeds, we found times reduced by around 10-15 seconds from 2nd to 3rd generation chips.