CPU Performance Results

I have spent a couple of weeks with the ZOTAC A75-ITX WiFi before beginning my performance testing, running various configurations and CPUs, and checking hardware compatibility. I 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, I tore down the system, mounted my Corsair cooler and put the board through the paces.

SuperPi

Super Pi serves as our memory-focused benchmark, being highly single-threaded. The ZOTAC A75-ITX WiFi did fairly well here, but not the top-level results of some of the other products, and only when XMP was enabled.

wPrime

wPrime is much more CPU-focused, but memory plays its role as well. In this test, the numbers were much closer, but the A75-ITX WiFi came out on top of A75 products tested when XMP was enabled.

WinRAR

A new addition to our motherboard benchmarking suite is the built-in benchmark that is part of the WinRAR software suite. The ZOTAC A75-ITS WiFi matched wPrime results here, as expected.

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. The ZOTAC A75 completely obliterated the other A75-based products in AIDA64's memory benchmark, which seems a bit off, considering the other results, but I did retest multiple times, and got the same results.

HandBrake Encoding

Handbrake is used for encoding testing, and provided results much similar to the previous benchmarks, with no surprise.

CineBench Encoding

In Cinebench, the ZOTAC A75-ITX WiFi was a bit underwhelming here, making for a mixed bag of performance results. It's good, of course, but not on top in every test.