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Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI Motherboard Review

Luke Hill August 28, 2015 Featured Announcement, Motherboard

Cinebench

We used the ‘CPU’ test built into Cinebench R15 .

cine

7-Zip

We manually archive a 1.23GB MP4 game recording to test the performance in 7-Zip.

7-zip

Handbrake Conversion

We measured the average frame rate achieved for a task of converting a 1.23GB 1080P game recording using the High Profile setting and MP4 container.

handbrake

The board's reduced memory performance has little affect on CPU-heavy workloads. The Z170XP-SLI scores a bottom-place finish in our Handbrake conversion test, and is joint-last in Cinebench, but the margins are small.

7-Zip is very sensitive to bandwidth and general performance of the memory subsystem, so it is no surprise to see reduced performance for Gigabyte's offering. As previously mentioned, this reduced memory-related performance seems to be an early BIOS bug and I would not be surprised to see an update fix the issue.

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2 comments

  1. RogerDickerson21
    October 20, 2015 at 4:59 pm

    I fail to see how this board is slower than the other 2 as the frame testing is within margin of error.

  2. Iván Baldo
    February 9, 2016 at 9:23 pm

    When one activates the XMP profile it automatically activates a memory stability option that should be set to normal to regain those 10Gbps extra. I don’t remember exactly how that option is called but just search for a memory related option that says “compatibility” or “stability” and switch it to “normal” instead.

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