The GIGABYTE Z170X-Ultra Gaming & Z170X-Designare Motherboard Review
by E. Fylladitakis on December 28, 2016 10:00 AM ESTCPU Performance, Short Form
For our motherboard reviews, we use our short form testing method. These tests usually focus on if a motherboard is using MultiCore Turbo (the feature used to have maximum turbo on at all times, giving a frequency advantage), or if there are slight gains to be had from tweaking the firmware. We leave the BIOS settings at default and memory at JEDEC (DDR4-2133 C15) for these tests, making it very easy to see which motherboards have MCT enabled by default.
Video Conversion – Handbrake v0.9.9: link
Handbrake is a media conversion tool that was initially designed to help DVD ISOs and Video CDs into more common video formats. For HandBrake, we take two videos (a 2h20 640x266 DVD rip and a 10min double UHD 3840x4320 animation short) and convert them to x264 format in an MP4 container. Results are given in terms of the frames per second processed, and HandBrake uses as many threads as possible.
Compression – WinRAR 5.0.1: link
Our WinRAR test from 2013 is updated to the latest version of WinRAR at the start of 2014. We compress a set of 2867 files across 320 folders totaling 1.52 GB in size – 95% of these files are small typical website files, and the rest (90% of the size) are small 30 second 720p videos.
Point Calculations – 3D Movement Algorithm Test: link
3DPM is a self-penned benchmark, taking basic 3D movement algorithms used in Brownian Motion simulations and testing them for speed. High floating point performance, MHz and IPC wins in the single thread version, whereas the multithread version has to handle the threads and loves more cores. For a brief explanation of the platform agnostic coding behind this benchmark, see my forum post here.
Rendering – POV-Ray 3.7: link
The Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer, or POV-Ray, is a freeware package for as the name suggests, ray tracing. It is a pure renderer, rather than modeling software, but the latest beta version contains a handy benchmark for stressing all processing threads on a platform. We have been using this test in motherboard reviews to test memory stability at various CPU speeds to good effect – if it passes the test, the IMC in the CPU is stable for a given CPU speed. As a CPU test, it runs for approximately 2-3 minutes on high end platforms.
Synthetic – 7-Zip 9.2: link
As an open source compression tool, 7-Zip is a popular tool for making sets of files easier to handle and transfer. The software offers up its own benchmark, to which we report the result.
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DanNeely - Wednesday, December 28, 2016 - link
Lack of a good way to get video from the GPU to the TB controller probably. The displayport in connectors on these boards work; but are a serious kludge. An elegant option would either require pumping the video out of the GPU over PCIe or putting TB on the GPU itself. Both options would probably require a lot of driver work on the GPU vendors at a minimum; at the moment I suspect both are much more concerned with working on their DX12 support and can't afford to divert enough manpower to the task. Pumping the video over PCIe would almost certainly require support on the TB controller from Intel; and would probably require both the GPU and TB controller to be connected to CPU PCIe lanes (A single 4k steam would eat a big chunk of the DMI busses total bandwidth.)MaidoMaido - Thursday, December 29, 2016 - link
thanks, very helpful explanation!DanNeely - Wednesday, December 28, 2016 - link
"Both of the boards are strongly based on storage solutions that are either dead (SATA Express)"While it's dead as a storage standard, and I'll shed no tears for its pending demise, it has been used to power USB 3.1g2 front panel devices that tapped into its pair of PCIe lanes to give the controller sufficient bandwidth to operate at full speed. If 200 series chipsets add native support for USB3.1 its value as an IO kludge will go away; but the assorted rumor sites have been posting conflicting claims on what version of USB3.x will be natively supported all year. I guess we'll know soon enough...
Gothmoth - Thursday, December 29, 2016 - link
yawn.... a little late.The_Assimilator - Friday, December 30, 2016 - link
"A little late" should be AnandTech's new motto.The_Assimilator - Friday, December 30, 2016 - link
It's not a full review if there's no overclocking results. That's kinda the whole point of Z170...uklio - Friday, December 30, 2016 - link
Review was boring and basically an extended ad rather than anything in depth. I own the Designare and there are many issues that need fixing for enthusiasts which is who these boards are aimed at. For example, the F20 bios causes my 6700k to run at a much higher voltage than normal and when overclocking, the lowest power saving state causes the CPU to run with a 9x multiplier instead of an 8x one. Considering this is the only "review" that is using the F20 bios it is such a missed opportunity..nadileya - Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - link
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