CPU Performance Results

We spent about a week with the ASUS Maximus V Gene before beginning our performance testing, running various configurations and CPUs, and checking hardware compatibility. We verified our power consumption numbers using various different power supplies, and played a few hours of games with some members of the TPU community to get an overall feel for the board and to verify stability. Once completed, we tore down the system, mounted our Noctua cooler and put the board through the paces.

SuperPi

SuperPI serves as our memory-focused benchmark, being highly single-threaded. As expected, the ASUS Maximus V Gene is in the top spot, but not by much, just a couple of seconds.

wPrime

wPrime is much more CPU-focused, but memory plays its role as well. In this test, the ASUS Maximus V Gene seemed to pull even further ahead than other Intel Z77 Express products, managing a bit over a ten second advantage.

WinRAR

Part of our motherboard benchmarking suite is the built-in benchmark that is part of the WinRAR software suite. The ASUS maximus didn't score quite high here, with the Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H scoring considerably higher. I'm not sure why the Gigabyte actually got that high of a score, to be honest, although the ECS Z77H2-AX is just behind the ASUS Maximus V Gene board.

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. Again the ASUS Maximus V Gene ended up in the middle for Intel Z77 Express products tested so far. Perhaps the added memory performance on the Gigabyte board led to its higher WinRAR numbers.

HandBrake Encoding

Handbrake is used for encoding testing, and here the ASUS Maximus V Gene and its custom Turbo clock boost are on top again for Intel Z77 Express products, as HandBrake is one of few applications that take full advantage of all the CPU performance offered.

CineBench Encoding

In Cinebench, the ASUS Maximus V Gene again capitalized on its added frequency, taking the top spot over all platforms for GPU performance, while taking the top spot for SKT 1155 products in the CPU test portion.