CPU Performance Results

We spent a couple of weeks with the Gigabyte B75M-D3H 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 Gigabyte B75M-D3H ended up near 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 the same, with the Gigabyte B75M-D3H sitting right in the middle of the Z77 Express-based results.

WinRAR

Part of our motherboard benchmarking suite is the built-in benchmark that is part of the WinRAR software suite. In this test, the Gigabyte B75M-D3H again impressed, sitting right with all the other Ivy Bridge results.

AIDA64

We employed AIDA64's memory bench to highlight memory bandwidth. We isolated the write performance metric as it serves as a good indicator of overall memory performance. Here the B75M-D3H sits more where I expected, with slightly lower numbers than what Z77 Express has provided.

HandBrake Encoding

Handbrake is used for encoding testing and provided results much similar to the previous benchmarks, with the Gigabyte B75M-D3H sitting back up with the best Z77 Express results.

CineBench Encoding

In Cinebench, the Gigabyte B75M-D3H again performed really well. It's hard for me to accept a board that retails for less than $100 sits so high up on the performance charts.