To test the abilities of a given motherboard, we have broken down testing into multiple categories:
1) System Benchmarks, which consists of test that stress the entire system in synthetic and real world scenarios.
2) Synthetic Game Benchmarks which mainly stress the GPU and CPU combination, and consists of various games builtin benchmark.
3) Real World In-Game Benchmarks which consist of timed real world game play results using FRAPS and multiple modern PC games.
The full list of the applications that we utilized in our benchmarking suite:
Adobe Preimer Elements 15
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
Cinebench R15
Geekbench
PC Mark 8
POV-Ray
WinRAR
x264 HD Benchmark
AIDA64
RightMark Audio Analyzer
Sleeping Dogs
Metro: Last Light
BioShock Infinite
GTA: V
Crysis 3
Battlefield 4
Assassins Creed: Syndicate
System Components Used:
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Memory: 32GB HyperX DDR4-2600
Cooling: Corsair H110i AIO
Video Card(s): NIVIDIA GTX 980 Ti
SSD: 1x Seagate 600 Pro 400GB, 2x Intel DC S3700 800GB SSDs.
Power Supply: Corsair AX860i
OS: Windows 8.1
