Gigabyte Z170X-Ultra Gaming (LGA1151) Motherboard Review

Memory Performance

AIDA64 Engineer

The Gigabyte Z170X-Ultra Gaming’s memory bandwidth is superb and outperforms a large number of rival offerings.

After the overclock was applied, the motherboard came into its own and posted exceptionally high numbers.

SiSoft Sandra

On a similar note, the stock performance during the SiSoft Sandra memory bandwidth benchmark is phenomenal and exemplifies the motherboard’s wonderful memory capabilities.

Once overclocked, the motherboard falls back slightly and no longer dominates the top position. However, the margin between the top results is incredibly small and only becomes apparent during synthetic applications. Also, these are the best figures I’ve seen from a Gigabyte motherboard which deserves a great deal of praise.

Combined Latency Test

The Gigabyte Z170X-Ultra Gaming outputs low memory latency numbers in both Aida64 and SiSoft Sandra.

The overclocked results are even more remarkable and the motherboard continues to thrive during memory benchmarking.