ASUS Z87 ROG Motherboard Roundup: Enter Maximus VI
Low-Res: Gaming Tests
For our next set of
tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with Crysis
(DirectX) and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (OpenGL). When testing
processors with Crysis or ET:QW, we drop the resolution to 1024x768, and
reduce all of the in-game graphical options to their minimum values to
isolate CPU and memory performance
as much as possible. However, the in-game effects, which control the
level of detail for the games' physics engines and particle systems, are
left at their maximum values, since these actually place some load on
the CPU rather than GPU.
The ASUS motherboards and the Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H posted scores within a few FPS of one another, but the G1.Sniper 5 and Z87X-OC Force took a nap on these tests. In Crysis, the difference is stark, as the G1.Sniper 5 came in about 5 FPS below the lead group, while the Z87X-OC Force was another few FPS below that. The gap isn't as pronounced in ET:QW, but the lower scores on two of Gigabyte's more high-end boards is odd.
Still, all of these motherboards are hitting no less than 174.01 FPS in Crysis and 291.32 in ET:QW with our test system components, which is superb performance all the way around.
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The ASUS motherboards and the Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H posted scores within a few FPS of one another, but the G1.Sniper 5 and Z87X-OC Force took a nap on these tests. In Crysis, the difference is stark, as the G1.Sniper 5 came in about 5 FPS below the lead group, while the Z87X-OC Force was another few FPS below that. The gap isn't as pronounced in ET:QW, but the lower scores on two of Gigabyte's more high-end boards is odd.
Still, all of these motherboards are hitting no less than 174.01 FPS in Crysis and 291.32 in ET:QW with our test system components, which is superb performance all the way around.
