Synthetic Benchmarks

The PCMark series from Futuremark is a system wide benchmark which measures performance of CPU, GPU, memory as well as storage.



Under x64 at stock speeds the ASRock Xtreme3 trails the competitions a bit, in all other settings the performance is on par with the other test subjects.

Furmark is an OpenGL benchmark and GPU load test application, we shouldn't see much difference here, but never assume:



This test was repeated several times with the same outcome every time, the ASRock boards are a few percentage slower than the competition, no matter what resolution is tested, or if the CPU is overclocked.

CrystalMark is under complete system benchmark tool, here the Xtreme3 shines nicely:



Cinebench is all about raw CPU power as well as multihreaded performance, measuring the time it took to render the 3D scene here are the results:



Commendable performance by the ASRock Xtreme3 here.

The last bench of this bunch is an old classic, SuperPI is a very good raw measurement tool to see how well a system is tuned "out of the box" as each small change in memory timing, FSB speed, ratio etc effects performance noticeably:



ASRock BIOS engineers did their homework here, besting the other motherboards tested at stock as well as overclocked CPU speed;