CPU Performance Results

SuperPi

Super Pi serves as our memory-focused benchmark, being highly single-threaded. The Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 put out decent numbers, but was a fair bit behind for its platform.

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 Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 close, but still behind.

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 Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 put up average numbers.

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 Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 is right alongside the MSI Z68A-GD65(G3), the other PCIe 3.0 board we've tested recently.

HandBrake Encoding

Handbrake is used for encoding testing, and provided results much similar to the AIDA64 benchmark, with the Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 just trailing the MSI Z68A-GD65(G3) securing second place for its platform.

CineBench Encoding

In Cinebench, the Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 followed the emerging pattern, just right behind the MSI board in nearly all CPU-focused benchmarks.