Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 (LGA1151) Motherboard Review

Memory Performance

AIDA64 Engineer

In terms of memory bandwidth, the motherboard obtains really good results across write, read and copy benchmarks.

Once overclocked, the modules’ performance is impressive and rivals many higher priced alternatives.

SiSoft Sandra

Rather surprisingly, the motherboard performs much better in Sandra’s memory benchmark and the stock numbers really took me by surprise. Granted, there’s very little to choose between each product but I have to commend Gigabyte for this exceptional result.

After the overclock was applied, the motherboard fell down the order slightly but it’s still a great score emphasizes the price to performance ratio.

Combined Latency Test

The motherboard’s stock memory latency remained fairly low and within an acceptable margin of the top results.

Here we can see the overclock helps matters by a substantial margin and makes the motherboard more competitive.