Benchmark Test Results
Stock and overclocked frequencies were recorded. A system must achieve at least a 3-day error and crash free result with a completely patched OS and go through our entire benchmark suite. These are the basic requirements that must be met for any board to get a pass from us. The ASRock X99M Killer managed this hurdle without issue so lets check out the results.
PCMark 8 – Conventional
Overall system performance shows the Fatal1ty X99M Killer can hold the Haswell-E’s weight nicely. The overclock showed very respectable gains. This is a great way for ASRock to start out with the X99 platform.
SANDRA – Multimedia and Mathematics
It’s like watching the same system run CPU benchmarks over and over. The BIOS tuning is evident across all the platforms. Keep in mind that this is just standard mode. Each platform has performance settings that will increase performance.
X.264 GraySky 5.0
Since content creation is heavily influenced by motherboard and CPU communication, the H.264 benchmark can paint a pretty good picture of the platform’s capabilities. I reran the benchmark in Standard and Performance modes to see that the ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer performed really well scoring an average of 119.71 and 124.41 respectively.
Cinebench R15 – CPU Rendering
BIOS tuning influences CineBench performance as well. The results again are comparable to previous X99 platforms. The ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer achieves a nice overclocked score.
Graphics – Gaming
Even though gaming performance is often very close from board to board, we still like to make sure that graphics is working in all the ports. It’s clear that the smaller form factor will not leave you hungry GPU starved for bandwidth.
Next, we’ll check in on the hardware features including the audio and the IO, and take it home!