CPU Performance Results

SuperPi

Super Pi serves as our memory-focused benchmark, being highly single-threaded. The ZOTAC Z68-ITX WiFi put out fantastic numbers here, near the top of the pack. We were expecting such a result, based on clocks alone, but we are more than aware that technically, the Zotac Z68-ITX WiFi is cheating with its 3.8 GHz clockspeed across all cores.

wPrime

wPrime is much more CPU-focused, but memory plays its role as well. In this test, the numbers were much closer, but the Z68-ITX WiFi once again came out on top, due to the higher default clockspeed.

WinRAR

A new addition to our motherboard benchmarking suite is the built-in benchmark that is part of the WinRAR software suite. In this test, the ZOTAC Z68-ITX WiFi put up good numbers, but was lower than we had 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. Again the Z68-ITX WiFi ended up in the middle of the pack, explaining our lower-than-expected WinRAR results.

HandBrake Encoding

Handbrake is used for encoding testing, and provided results much similar to the previous benchmarks, with the ZOTAC Z68-ITX WiFi right in the middle of the pack again, but this time on the upper half, handily beating out our other Z68-based product, the Biostar TZ68A+.

CineBench Encoding

In Cinebench, the ZOTAC Z68-ITX WiFi followed the emerging pattern, right on top by a fair margin, but again, this is due to the "funny" Turbo settings in BIOS.