Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 ATX Motherboard Review

PCMark 8

Like Futuremark’s other major benchmark, 3DMark, PCMark 8 has multiple benchmarks that gauge performance on varying levels of workload. We will take a look at the Home Accelerated benchmark, which Futuremark says it reflects common tasks that a typical home user might experience. These include photo editing, typing, web browsing, video chat, and casual gaming. Each of the components of the Home Accelerated test is broken out, and then combined to provide an overall PCMark 8 score for the system.

The Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 with the Intel i7-6700K had an overall score of 4538 at stock speeds, and 4832 when overclocked; which comes to around a 6.5% boos in performance simply by changing the CPU mulitplier.

	JunglePin	Amazonia	Writing	Photo Editing	Video Chat	Video Chat Encoding	Casual Gaming
GigabyteZ170X-UD5 OC	0.307s	0.134s	4.88s	0.159s	30FPS	33.0ms	142.78FPS
GigabyteZ170X-UD5	0.314s	0.137s	5.43s	0.173s	30FPS	33.0ms	123.4FPS
GigabyteZ97X-UD3H-BK	0.324s	0.43s	6.09s	0.192s	30FPS	33.0ms	94.4FPS

If we take a closer look at the score breakdown, we can see that the overclocked Z170X-UD5 received slightly better scores in nearly every category. The 19FPS difference in the Casual Gaming category is a pretty significant increase, coming in just under 15.5%.