Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 (Z77) Motherboard Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
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.
Starting off with Cinebench, we are surprised to see that this top level board has been pipped to the post by one of its lesser spec siblings, the D3H, but we still find a very strong result as expected with the board running at 4.8GHz.
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.
Moving over to SuperPI, again we find the D3H just beating the UP7 to the line by a mere 2 seconds at stock speeds, but once overclocked, the board soon came back with the fastest calculation speed we’ve seen on the Z77 platform of 7 minutes exactly.
