CPU Performance Results

We spent a couple of weeks with the ASUS P9X79 Deluxe 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. The ASUS P9X79 Deluxe ended up on the top of the pile of all Intel products we have tested, a good showing, for sure.

wPrime

wPrime is much more CPU-focused, but memory plays its role as well. In this test, the numbers were much closer, but the P9X79 Deluxe was just a bit slower than the ECS X79R-AX.

WinRAR

Part of our motherboard benchmarking suite is the built-in benchmark that is part of the WinRAR software suite. In this test, the ASUS P9X79 Deluxe put up good numbers, however, we noticed performance a fair bit below what we noticed on the ECS X79R-AX. Given that the wPrime results are also lower, this isn't completely unexplained, but we did expect a bit better performance here. Perhaps a BIOS update will fix that.

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 P9X79 Deluxe ended up just above the ECS X79R-AX, but only by 53 MB/s.

HandBrake Encoding

Handbrake is used for encoding testing, and provided results much similar to the previous benchmarks, with the ASUS P9X79 Deluxe sitting a bit over a full FPS ahead of our previously best result.

CineBench Encoding

In Cinebench, the ASUS P9X79 Deluxe was again a bit faster, and there seems to be a trend emerging where the focus seems more centered on 3D performance than CPU performance. The GPU portion was a wee bit higher than on the ECS X79R-AX, but the CPU portion had results that perfectly aligned.