CPU Performance Results

We spent a couple of days with the Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 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 many 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. On to the results!

SuperPi

SuperPi serves as our memory-focused benchmark, being highly single-threaded. The numbers provided were much better than we expected, with the Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 finally coming into its own, and proving to us our initial thoughts while examining the board were spot on. The Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 did not disappoint, at all, beating our reference B2 revision ECS board by a fair margin.

wPrime

wPrime is much more CPU-focused, but memory plays its role as well. Again we were quite surprised to find the Gigabyte P67A-UD4 coming out on top here, beating both the other platforms without any doubt. Suddenly, we really really like this product!

WinRAR

A new addition to our motherboard benchmarking suite is the built-in benchmark that is part of the WinRAR compression software suite. Again the P67A-UD4-B3 came out on top, providing a clear win yet again. We've never been so clearly impressed that our conclusions were wrong, wrong, wrong! The board really is a drag racer!

AIDA64 Memory

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, while highlighting the real performance improvement that the P67 platform offers. As you can see by the results, both P67-based boards are so close as to be within the margin of error, yet at the same time, offer a near 70% increase in overall write bandwidth.

HandBrake Encoding

Handbrake is used for encoding testing, and provided results much similar to the previous benchmarks, with the Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 once again coming out on top.

CineBench Encoding

In Cinebench, the Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 once again wins out overall. This board must have spent some time with Charlie Sheen, as it is clearly WINNING!!!