Z68 Motherboard Roundup: ASUS, EVGA, ASRock, GB, MSI, ZOTAC
LAME MT Audio Encoding and Cinebench
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In this test, we created our own 223MB WAV file (a hallucinogenic-induced Grateful Dead jam) and converted it to the MP3 format using the multi-thread capable LAME MT application in single and multi-thread modes. Processing times are recorded below, listed in seconds. Shorter times equate to better performance.
The audio encoding test showed very little differentiation between the motherboards, although the MSI board posted a weak score on the single-threaded test.
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Cinebench R11.5 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.
Again, these motherboards posted very similar scores, with little to distinguish one from another in Cinebench. The ASUS board did manage the top score, though not by much.