CPU Performance Results

SuperPi

Super Pi serves as our memory-focused benchmark, being highly single-threaded. The ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z put out decent numbers, but was only ahead thanks to its clockspeed advantage.

wPrime

wPrime is much more CPU-focused, but memory plays its role as well. In this test, the numbers were much the same as SuperPi, with the ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z right at the top of the charts.

WinRAR

The third test in our motherboard benchmarking suite is the built-in benchmark that is part of the WinRAR software suite. In this test, the ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z again took the top spot, a full 100 kB/s faster than the second place result.

AIDA64

We employed AIDA64's memory bench to highlight memory bandwidth. We isolate the write performance metric as it serves as a good indicator of overall memory performance. Here the ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z is on top again, right alongside the P8P67 PRO, the other PCIe 3.0 boards we've tested recently left in the dust.

HandBrake Encoding

Handbrake is used for encoding testing, and provided results much similar to the AIDA64 benchmark, with the ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z on top yet again, of course. With its clockspeed advantage, we'd be very concerned if it wasn't.

CineBench Encoding

In Cinebench, the ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z followed the emerging pattern, but this time just right behind the ZOTAC Z68-ITX WiFi board, but still in second place. The ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z has completely dominated in nearly all CPU-focused benchmarks thanks to its higher clock speed out of the box.