Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H (Z87) Motherboard 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.

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.

Straight out of the box, we can see that the UD3H has equal performance to other higher-end spec boards and lines up well with the Z87X-OC. Once overclocked, the score dramatically increased to 9.72. In Super PI, for a low-end board, we’re seeing some very strong performance again, give or take a second or two. Overclocked performance shows the Super PI time being shaved by a whole 2 minutes.