Usually people talk about a good stress test for their daily setups or overclock. Well I have two favorites that provide a quick and pretty solid stability test for both the processor and memory. First one is Intel's XTU (Intel CPU only of course :p); second one is the RealBench benchmark. You can choose between either the ASUS Republic of Gamers or the HWBOT version. We used the HWBOT version to verify the performance differences between the motherboards, by using the HWBot version so we can compare performance easier at the HWBOT website. The ROG version is constantly updated so checking results between different versions becomes a tad more trickier.
RealBench features several open source software with the latest CPU extensions, where each would test a different part of the system:
This focuses on single-threaded CPU performance and memory performance, therefore CPU clock speed and memory efficiency (timings + frequency) are the key to a good score. It uses up to SSE4.2 CPU extensions.
This focuses on multi-threaded CPU and cache performance, therefore the more CPU threads, cache and clock speed you have the better the score. It uses up to AVX CPU extensions.
This focuses entirely on OpenCL performance. It will check for GPU accelerated OpenCL first, before defaulting to CPU if it isn’t present. It is also compatible with AMD’s upcoming hUMA between APU and GPU. It scales perfectly across all available resources, so the more OpenCL capable GPUs installed the better the score. OpenCL driver efficiency is also key to this test, with some components performing better than others. The test runs for a fixed period and is calculated on the sustained KSample/sec the system can generate.
This test uses a combination of the above tests to simulate a heavy multitasking scenario that loads the entire system.
As you see most Z270 boards perform alike, with at some tests one brand grabbing the top spot, while on another test brand B is again on top.
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