CPU Performance

We're working on adding more results to the graphs on our new motherboard test system but for now we've included comparison results where possible either using the same CPU and GPU on a different board, for example from our recent Ryzen 9 9950X review, or from similar systems with other CPUs. Over the next few weeks we will update these results to include those for other 800-series chipset boards.

AIDA64 Cache and Memory Performance

In this first test we're looking at the performance offered by the memory subsystem and the processor's L1, L2 and L3 caches. AIDA64 comes with a great benchmark that provides a nice overview of all these performance characteristics.

Media Encoding — H.265 / HEVC

Our video-encoding test uses the H.265 codec, which is also known as HEVC. Compared to H.264 it provides superior compression efficiency, reducing file sizes and bandwidth usage while maintaining high video quality. We compress a 4K video using the latest version of the X265 encoder with 8-bit color depth, preset "slow," and a quality setting of crf 20.

Y-Cruncher

Y-Cruncher is a highly optimized piece of software that can calculate Pi and other constants to a huge number of digits. It is fully multithreaded, uses a modern code design and is optimized for all major processor architectures. This ability has made it a popular application, used by the enthusiast community to determine and compare how powerful their overclocked systems are.

Rendering — Cinebench

Cinebench is one of the most popular modern CPU benchmarks because it is built around the renderer of Maxon's Cinema 4D software. Both AMD and Intel have been showing this performance test at various public events, making it almost an industry standard. Using Cinebench 2024, we test both single-threaded and multithreaded performance.

Gaming Performance

Our game tests for now aren't comparable with other results, but again we will be adding to this graph as we review more motherboards with our new test system.