Gigabyte X99-SOC Champion & X99 Gaming 5P Haswell E Motherboards Reviewed

Cinebench and POV-Ray

Cinebench is an OpenGL 3D rendering performance test based on Cinema 4D from Maxon. Cinema 4D is a 3D rendering and animation tool suite used by 3D animation houses and producers like Sony Animation and many others. It's very demanding of system processor resources and is an excellent gauge of pure computational throughput. This is a multi-threaded, multi-processor aware benchmark that renders and animates 3D scenes and tracks the length of the entire process. The rate at which each test system was able to render the entire scene is represented in the graph below.

Cinebench
3D Rendering Benchmark

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All of the X99-based boards performed similarly in Cinebench as well. The X99 SOC Champion took the pole position in the multi-threaded test, but the other boards were right there with it.

POV-Ray Performance
Ray Tracing Benchmark

POV-Ray , or the Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer, is an open source tool for creating realistically lit 3D graphics artwork. We tested with POV-Ray's standard 'one-CPU' and 'all-CPU' benchmarking tools on all of our test machines and recorded the scores reported for each. Results are measured in pixels-per-second throughput; higher scores equate to better performance.

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We saw more of the same in the POV-Ray benchmark. The Haswell-E based rigs tops the chart, but only a couple of points separated the X99 boards


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