Gigabyte Gaming K5 Z270 Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

The Gaming K5 is certainly competitive, keeping in mind it is on the slightly older Z270 platform. So while it may not look the fastest, it is still quite fast for the Z270 platform. It delivered a respectable score of 19865, however, once it was overclocked this score boosted up to 21666.

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Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

Unigine is a much more GPU bound task, and in this test the motherboard hit a fantastic 5515, putting it on par with pretty much everything else on the market. Of course, once it was overclocked, we saw that score increase again, hitting a blazingfast 5530.

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PCMark 10 Express

PCMark 10 is a great test of all round system performance, from day today browsing, to editing in software such as Photoshop. The K5 motherboard gave a very average score of 5150, but again this is a fantastic score for this chipset and the processor used. However, once overclocked it hit an even more impressive 6207, moving it significantly up the chart.

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WPrime 32M and 1024M

The WPrime performance was certainly respectable. Obviously we weren’t expecting huge things from the processor used, but it managed to beat out the BIOSTAR Z270 motherboard by a fair margin at stock and overclock values.

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Cinebench R15

Cinebench is a demanding task on any processor, but it’s a really good test of motherboards to test throughput of various devices such as the memory and the graphics card. In this respect, the gaming K5 performed respectably with a score of 941. Obviously not the highest score we’ve ever seen, but again it is the fastest one we have on our chats for the Z270 platform.

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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

Handbrake performance wasn’t anything too crazy, and again it’s right where will you would have expected it to be for this processor and chipset at stock and overclock values.

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