Benchmarking and Results
Now comes the part we all were waiting for: The Benchmarks! First up a few info about my setups:
Setup 1
- Core i5 2500K
- P8Z68 Deluxe
- GSkill 2*2GB 1600 C9
- HD 7850
- WD 320GB AAKX HDD
- AX1200W
Setup 2
- Core i5 2500K
- P8Z77 V Deluxe
- GSkill 2*2GB 1600 C9
- HD 7850
- WD 320GB AAKX HDD
- AX1200W
Setup 3
- Core i5 2500K
- Maximus V Formula
- GSkill 2*2GB 1600 C9
- HD 7850
- WD 320GB AAKX HDD
- AX1200W
Every benchmark was run until the results were consistent to rule out margin of errors as much as possible.
A few points when analyzing the graphs:
*AIDA 64 Benchmarking suites:Higher score is better
*SuperPi and Wprime:Lower score is better
*3D Mark Vantage CPU and Cinebench and X26 Benchmark:Higher is better
*So now that’s over lets see what the board gives us.
First up the 2D benchmarks
Aida 64 CPU Suite
The results from P8Z77 V Deluxe are a bit low when run on initial bios but they have been fixed on the later bios updates.And Maximus V Formula’s perfromance is consistent through out the phases.
Aida 64 FPU suite
Frankly, the formula amazed me a bit there… we see an almost 60% jump in stock FPU scores in some benches.So i guess someone can explain what sorcery is this.
Now comes two big boys of competitive benchmarking : SuperPi 1M and SuperPi 32M
Competitive benchmarking is where the Formula Excels and we can see the formula leads the way ahead of the other two boards.
Next is WPrime32M and Wprime 1024M:
Here also we see the Formula keeping its lead.
3DMark Vantage is both CPU and GPU dependent(more than the other 3Dmark Benchmarks),lets see how the Formula fairs in this bench.
Am a bit shocked at the scores when comparing with Z68.But i guess its more due to the platform than the board. I will test out with ivybridge when I can get my hands on a sample.
Next up some real world workload tests:
Cinebench 10 and Cinebench 11.5
The formula still leading at all speeds(this is getting a bit boring now)
X264 Benchmark
Now that concludes the Benchmarking part. Maximus V formula leads all the way as expected.
