Gigabyte Z170X-Designare Motherboard Review: Affordable, High-Tech, Great Performance


Z170X-Designare Cinebench R15 And POV-Ray

Cinebench R15 is a 3D rendering performance test based on Cinema 4D from Maxon. Cinema 4D is a 3D rendering and animation suite used by animation houses and producers like Sony Animation and many others. It's very demanding of processor resources and is an excellent gauge of pure computational throughput.

Cinebench R15
3D Rendering
This is a multi-threaded, multi-processor aware benchmark that renders a photorealistic 3D scene (from the viral "No Keyframes" animation by AixSponza). This scene makes use of various algorithms to stress all available processor cores. The rate at which each test system was able to render the entire scene is represented in the graph below.
Gigabyte Z170X Designare Cinebench true
There she goes! The Designare shows a strong performance dominating at both stock and while overclocked. These are nominal wins, however and will not be perceptible during use.

POV-Ray Performance
Ray Tracing
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.

Gigabyte Z170X Designare POV Ray true
Again the Designare is at the top of the heap when overclocked and slips into the middle position of our previously tested mobos while at stock clocks. 

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