Graphics and Gaming
3DMark11, Assassin’s Creed III, Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Metro Last Light, and Splinter Cell Blacklist complete this portion of tests. Drivers, hardware, BIOS, and frequencies are the big variables in this equation. As long as each is set the same, the results can be trusted. What I looked at was comparing performance while looking for anomalies. We end things audio and overall gaming experience to punch the point home.
3DMark11
There’s little to no difference here with the synthetic test. It really comes down to the GPU more than anything else. If you’re wondering, none of the boards here had any issues or anomalies to report with SLI GTX 780s.
Unigine Heaven
This is probably one of the closest benchmark results in some time. It comes down to very fine PCIE tuning as well as bus bandwidth. But the graphics details from platform to platform is immaculate.
Assassin’s Creed III
This highly detailed game loves a good CPU and GPU combo. There was only a one frame difference here with the ASUS Deluxe tying the GIGABYTE Sniper 5. The cinematics in this game never get old and every board rendered them without issue.
Metro: Last Light
Like its predecessor, Metro: Last Light chews up the bunch pretty harshly. I reran the benchmark six times to get this average. The new drivers help just a bit. Again, the GIGABYTE G1-Killer Sniper 5 was smooth.
Battlefield 3 and 4
This is will be the last time I use BF3 for a benchmark. But since it’s still played, I’m including it. As you can see, the newer BF4 graphics are far more demanding. It’s just down to just decimals with this new benchmark. Again, graphics look pretty sweet.
Now that software benchmarks are out of the way, let’s get on with some hardware benchmarks.