Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Ryan Martin / 10 years ago
GPU Performance
3DMark
3DMark Firestrike is Futuremark’s latest creation for testing the GPU performance of high end gaming PCs using Direct X 11 graphics. You can download a free basic version of 3DMark here.
In 3DMark we find the Gigabyte board trailing the pack but not by much.
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider is a popular action-adventure video game published by Square Enix based on the Tomb Raider franchise. The game was released in 2013 and as of March 2014 had sold 6 million copies.
At Tomb Raider it leads the pack at stock and overclocked, albeit by less than 1 FPS which could be down to random margin of error.
Bioshock Infinite
Bioshock Infinite is a first person shooter developed by Irrational Games that is the third instalment of the Bioshock series. The game is the last to be produced by Irrational Games before they announced their closure in February 2014. The game has sold over 4 million copies since its 2013 release.
Bioshock Infinite reveals some fairly unintelligible results. The simplest message to take from this is that the motherboard makes virtually no difference to gaming performance, and neither does the CPU overclock when you only have a single GPU.
