CPU | Intel Socket 1155 Core i7, Core i5, Core i3 |
Chipset | Intel Z68 |
Memory | Dual Channel DDR3, 4 x DIMM, Max. 32 GB DDR3, 2133 / 1866 / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 Non-ECC,Un-buffered |
Multi-GPU |
2-/3-way ATI CrossFireX 2-/3-way NVIDIA SLI |
Slots | 2 x PCI-Express x16 (dual at x16/x8
mode, compatible with PCIe x1 and x4 devices) 1 x PCI-Express x4 2 x PCI-Express x1 2 x PCI |
Sound | Realtek ALC889, 7.1-Channel HD Audio Codec, Dolby Home Theater certified, S/PDIF Out |
Storage | 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10) 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD) 2 x eSATA 6 Gb/s |
I/O internal / Connectors | 1 x 24-pin ATX Main Power 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V Power 2 x SATA 6Gb/s 4 x SATA 3Gb/s 1 x CPU Fan Header 3 x System Fan Header 1 x Power Fan Header 1 x Chipset Fan Header 1 x Front Panel Header 1 x Front Panel Audio 1 x S/PDIF Out 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 2 x USB 3.0/2.0 1 x IEEE 1394a 1 x Clear CMOS 1 x Power Button 1 x Reset Button |
I/O external | 1 x PS/2-Tastatur/Maus 1 x Optischer S/PDIF 1 x Koaxialer S/PDIF Out 2 x IEEE 1394a 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 4 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports 2 x eSATA/USB Combo 1 x RJ-45 6 x Audio Jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out/Line In/Line Out/Microphone) |
Forfactor | ATX (30.5cm x 24.4cm) |
BIOS | Bios (2 x 32 Mb flash ROM, Award BIOS) |
Warranty | 4 years |
Regarding the delivery you'll find everything you need. If you plan to build a multi GPU system you'll only find a SLI bridge in the delivery. Unfortunately there is no CrossFire bridge. Also included in delivery you find an expansion bay which offers to additional USB 3.0 ports.
Dynamic Energy Saver 2 | Utilizing Gigabytes Dynamic Energy Saver the board is able to enhance the systems overall power efficiency. Therefore it is able to regulate power consumption of CPU, memory, chipset, graphics card, hard drive as well as connected fans. Of course all this will happen automatically. |
On/Off-Charge | With On/Off Charge Gigabyte has a Feature onboard which allows users to recharge for example their iPhon, iPod or iPad via USB without starting it up. Furthermore the devices can draw more power from these special USB ports than from standard ones. |
24 Phase Power Design | Gigabyte equips the Z68X-UD5-B3 with their 24 phase power design. It consists of high quality components which guarantee a long lifespan, hight stability and good overclockability. |
Cloud OC | Cloud OC should allow easy overclocking via an external device that can access the web. The program lets an overclocker access the different settings via a website. |
Intel Smart Response Technology | Intels Z68 chipset allows to use a small SSD as a cache for a big hard drive in order to enhance overall system performance. Especially application and system starts are ment to benefit from this technology. Also the overall user experience should become smoother. Of course you shouldn't expect a setup which makes use of Intels Smart Response Technology to outperform a SSD as a system drive. |
Like with the P67-series motherboards Gigabyte uses their new color scheme. Therefore the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer now uses a black PCB as well as black expansion slots. In conjunction they generate a very homogenous design. If you look at the heatpipe you see that the UD5 comes with an anthracite coating and additional blue element. Finally there are also some white spots which aren't distracting at all. We've been very positively surprised by Gigabyte lately, presenting such beautiful motherboards. We even think that this is one of the most beautiful boards they've ever introduced to the market.
Like other Gigabyte motherboards the Z68X-UD5-B3 comes with a 24 phase power design which guarantees stable current supply and good overclockability. Furthermore the 24 pahse VRM design relies on high quality polymer capacitors which have an average life expectancy of 50'000 hours. Furthermore there are low RDS(on) MOSFETs for lower temperatures and high quality inductors made of ferrite.
Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the Z68X-UD5-B3. Officially supported are DDR3 - 2133 / 1866 / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 with up to 32 GByte capacity. The DIMM-slots are quite close to the CPU socket which might cause some compatibility problems with big coolers especially when you choose to install RAM with big heatspreaders.
Southbridge, northbridge as well as the current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive heatpipe cooling solution. The fact that the cooling blocks around the CPU socket aren't too big make it comfortable to install a big aircooler. We also noticed the very high manufacturing quality of the cooling blocks and their weight which is quite immense.
Totally Gigabyte equipped the Z68X-UD5-B3 with six angled SATA ports which should be more than sufficient at least for any office PC. You'll also find practical onboard power-, reset- and CLR-COMS-buttons. Gigabyte also didn't equip this board with a debug display which would have been very useful if you should once have issues with one of the components in your system. The last expansion slot is a PCI-Express x4 slot which would for example be perfectly suitable for a high performance PCI-Express SSD.
Totally you'll find six fan headers on the Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 which is enough, to provide a well equipped midrange or even a high-end-system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located close to the CPU socket and they can also be found on the bottom edge of the board.
Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel Gigabyte provided the Z68X-UD5-B3 with a PS2 mouse/keyboard connector, four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, two firewire connectors, tow eSATA ports, one gigabit ethernet port, a SPDIF and coaxial optical out as well as an analogue audio panel.
Hardware |
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Motherboard |
- Gigabyte
Z68X-UD5-B3 - Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 - ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z - Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 - ASUS P8Z68-V Pro - ASUS P8H67-M Evo - ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional - ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe - Intel DH67BL - Intel DP67BG - MSI P67A-GD65 - MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 - ASUS Sabertooth P67 - Gigabyte P67A-UD4 - ASUS Maximus IV Extreme - ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution - ASUS P8P67-M EVO - Gigabyte P67A-UD7 |
Processor | Intel Core i5 2500K |
Memory | 2 GB Kingston PC3 16'000 9-9-9-27 |
Graphic card | Asus 5850 |
Hard disk | Samsung Spinpoint F1 320 GByte |
Power supply | bequiet! Dark Power Pro 1000Watt |
3DMark 11 is Futuremarks latest benchmark for the entire graphical subsystem. The benchmark uses DirectX 11 and it supports all recent features which can possibly generate high load on a GPU. Therefore you find tessellation, compute shader calculations, divers lighting effects and different depth of filed animations. Following we publish values regarding the performance preset of 3DMark 11.
3DMark 11 Total | Percent | |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 3'854 | 104.67 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 3'853 | 104.64 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 3'852 | 104.62 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 3'831 | 104.05 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 3'719 | 101.00 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 3'714 | 100.87 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 3'709 | 100.73 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 3'709 | 100.73 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 3'709 | 100.73 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 3'707 | 100.68 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 3'707 | 100.68 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 3'705 | 100.62 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 3'704 | 100.60 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 3'702 | 100.54 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 3'688 | 100.16 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 3'682 | 100.00 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro (with Lucid Virtu) | 3'678 | 99.89 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 3'632 | 98.64 % |
Intel DP67BG | 3'620 | 98.32 % |
more is better |
3DMark 11 Physic Score | Percent | |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 6'461 | 102.65 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 6'421 | 102.02 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 6'399 | 101.67 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 6'391 | 101.54 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro (with Lucid Virtu) | 6'317 | 100.37 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 6'300 | 100.10 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 6'294 | 100.00 % |
Intel DP67BG | 6'274 | 99.68 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 6'271 | 99.73 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 6'269 | 99.60 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 6'268 | 99 59 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 6'244 | 99.21 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 6'201 | 98.52 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 6'188 | 98.32 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 6'193 | 98.40 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 6'142 | 97.59 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 6'040 | 95.96 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 6'020 | 95.64 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 6'004 | 95.39 % |
more is better |
3DMark Vantage is able to squeeze nearly everything out of a recent system. Therefore the feature liste is also pretty long: DirectX10, FP16-HDR, motion blur, parallax occlusion mapping, GPU-physics simulation and different shader effects are being used to even make recent high-end systems struggle.
3DMark Vantage Total | Percent | |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 16'569 | 106.58 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 16'500 | 106.14 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 16'482 | 106.02 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 16'438 | 105.74 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 16'153 | 103.90 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 16'107 | 103.61 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 16'075 | 103.40 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 16'069 | 103.36 % |
Intel DP67BG | 15'924 | 102.43 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 15'835 | 101.86 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 15'776 | 101.48 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 15'710 | 101.05 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 15'760 | 101.38 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 15'757 | 101.36 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 15'749 | 101.31 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 15'605 | 100.38 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 15'546 | 100.00 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro (with Lucid Virtu) | 15'485 | 99.61 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 15'157 | 97.50 % |
more is better |
3DMark Vantage CPU | Percent | |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 17'181 | 100.20 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 17'379 | 101.35 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 17'354 | 101.21 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 17'347 | 101.17 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 17'261 | 100.66 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 17'186 | 100.23 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 17'179 | 100.19 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 17'167 | 100.12 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 17'164 | 100.10 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 17'147 | 100.00 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 17'126 | 99.88 % |
Intel DP67BG | 17'121 | 99.85 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 17'118 | 99.83 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 17'101 | 99.73 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 17'043 | 99.39 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 17'017 | 99.24 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 16'979 | 99.02 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 16'873 | 98.40 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro (with Lucid Virtu) | 15'055 | 87.80 % |
more is better |
SiSoft Sandra is a theoretical multi purpose benchmark suite which is able to show differences in CPU architectures. We split the tests with SiSoft Sandra into two parts. Therefore on this page you'll find Arithmetic-, Multimedia- and Cryptography-benchmarks.
SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetic Benchmark - Drystone | GIPS | Percent |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 68.00 | 101.12 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 67.83 | 100.86 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 67.77 | 100.77 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 67.70 | 100.67 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 67.67 | 100.62 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 67.62 | 100.55 % |
Intel DP67BG | 67.60 | 100.52 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 67.59 | 100.51 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 67.58 | 100.49 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 67.39 | 100.21 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 67.37 | 100.18 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 67.26 | 100.01 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 67.25 | 100.00 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 67.25 | 100.00 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 67.19 | 99.91 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 67.13 | 99.82 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 67.00 | 99.63 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 67.00 | 99.63 % |
more is better |
SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetic Benchmark - Whetstone | GFLOPS | Percent |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 49.00 | 100.51 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 49.00 | 100.51 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 49.00 | 100.51 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 49.00 | 100.51 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 49.00 | 100.51 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 49.00 | 100.51 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 48.81 | 100.12 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 48.80 | 100.10 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 48.80 | 100.10 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 48.78 | 100.06 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 48.76 | 100.02 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 48.75 | 100.00 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 48.71 | 99.92 % |
Intel DP67BG | 48.70 | 99.90 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 48.69 | 99.88 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 48.43 | 99.34 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 47.77 | 97.99 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 47.52 | 97.48 % |
more is better |
SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - Integer | MPixels/sec | Percent |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 120.84 | 100.34 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 120.70 | 100.22 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 120.68 | 100.21 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 120.62 | 100.16 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 120.43 | 100.00 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 120.41 | 99.98 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 120.41 | 99.98 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 120.34 | 99.93 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 120.34 | 99.93 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 120.33 | 99.92 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 120.30 | 99.89 % |
Intel DP67BG | 120.23 | 99.83 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 120.19 | 99.80 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 120.10 | 99.73 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 120.00 | 99.64 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 120.00 | 99.64 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 120.00 | 99.64 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 120.00 | 99.64 % |
more is better |
SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - floating point | MPixels/sec | Percent |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 71.37 | 100.22 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 71.37 | 100.22 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 71.21 | 100.00 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 71.20 | 99.99 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 71.20 | 99.99 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 71.19 | 99.97 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 71.19 | 99.97 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 71.18 | 99.96 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 71.17 | 99.94 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 71.16 | 99.93 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 71.00 | 99.71 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 71.00 | 99.71 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 71.00 | 99.71 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 71.00 | 99.71 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 70.87 | 99.52 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 70.65 | 99.21 % |
Intel DP67BG | 70.57 | 99.10 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 69.83 | 98.06 % |
more is better |
SiSoft Sandra - Crytography - AES 256 | GB/sec | Percent |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 7.39 | 117.30 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 7.38 | 117.14 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 7.30 | 115.87 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 7.00 | 111.11 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 7.00 | 111.11 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 7.00 | 111.11 % |
Intel DP67BG | 7.00 | 111.11 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 6.87 | 109.05 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 6.85 | 108.73 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 6.30 | 100.00 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 6.30 | 100.00 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 6.30 | 100.00 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 6.26 | 99.37 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 6.25 | 99.21 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 6.00 | 95.24 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 5.78 | 91.75 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 5.74 | 91.11 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 5.70 | 90.48 % |
more is better |
SiSoft Sandra - Crytography - SHA 256 | MB/sec | Percent |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 552 | 101.85 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 552 | 101.85 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 551 | 101.66 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 550 | 101.48 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 550 | 101.48 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 550 | 101.48 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 550 | 101.48 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 550 | 101.48 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 550 | 101.48 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 549 | 101.29 % |
Intel DP67BG | 549 | 101.29 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 549 | 101.29 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 549 | 101.29 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 549 | 101.29 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 548 | 101.11 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 542 | 100.00 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 530 | 97.79 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 510 | 94.10 % |
more is better |
At this point we deliver the values regarding Memory Bandwidth, Memory Latency as well as Memory and Cache Access.
SiSoft Sandra - Memory bandwidth - Integer | GB/sec | Percent |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 21.53 | 111.67 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 21.52 | 111.62 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 21.30 | 110.48 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 22.68 | 117.63 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 22.40 | 116.18 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 21.54 | 111.72 % |
Intel DP67BG | 21.46 | 111.31 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 21.27 | 110.32 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 21.13 | 109.60 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 19.36 | 100.41 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 19.30 | 100.10 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 19.28 | 100.00 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 19.22 | 99.69 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 19.16 | 99.38 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 18.84 | 97.72 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 18.00 | 93.36 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 17.75 | 92.06 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 17.70 | 91.80 % |
more is better |
SiSoft Sandra - Memory bandwidth - floating point | GB/sec | Percent |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 21.53 | 111.79 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 21.53 | 111.79 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 21.35 | 110.85 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 22.69 | 117.81 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 22.40 | 116.30 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 21.53 | 111.79 % |
Intel DP67BG | 21.47 | 111.47 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 21.25 | 110.33 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 21.14 | 109.76 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 19.36 | 100.52 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 19.35 | 100.47 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 19.26 | 100.00 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 19.22 | 99.79 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 19.20 | 99.69 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 18.83 | 97.77 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 17.75 | 92.16 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 18.00 | 93.46 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 17.72 | 92.00 % |
more is better |
SiSoft Sandra - Memory latency | ns | Percent |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 59.0 | 90.91 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 59.3 | 91.37 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 64.7 | 99.69 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 64.7 | 99.69 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 64.7 | 99.69 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 63.5 | 97.84 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 64.5 | 99.38 % |
Intel DP67BG | 64.5 | 99.38 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 64.8 | 99.85 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 64.9 | 100.00 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 64.9 | 100.00 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 65.1 | 100.31 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 65.2 | 100.46 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 65.3 | 100.62 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 68.9 | 106.16 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 70.8 | 109.09 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 73.0 | 112.48 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 73.3 | 112.94 % |
less is better |
SiSoft Sandra - Memory and cache access | GB/sec | Percent |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 102.51 | 107.08 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 103.13 | 107.73 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 102.66 | 107.24 % |
Intel DP67BG | 102.44 | 107.01 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 102.20 | 106.76 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 101.83 | 106.37 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 101.65 | 106.18 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 101.60 | 106.13 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 101.50 | 106.03 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 96.00 | 100.28 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 96.64 | 100.95 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 96.00 | 100.28 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 95.73 | 100.00 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 95.62 | 99.89 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 95.00 | 99.24 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 95.31 | 99.56 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 94.45 | 98.66 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 93.45 | 97.62% |
more is better |
Meanwhile Super Pi even in its latest version has become pretty old. Never the less it is able to show scaling to the clock speed nicely.
Super Pi 1.5 XS - 1M | sec | Percent |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 11.295 | 99.74 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 11.310 | 99.87 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 11.325 | 100.00 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 11.325 | 100.00 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 11.341 | 100.14 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 11.341 | 100.14 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 11.341 | 100.14 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 11.347 | 100.19 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 11.356 | 100.27 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 11.356 | 100.27 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 11.357 | 100.28 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 11.357 | 100.28 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 11.372 | 100.42 % |
Intel DP67BG | 11.373 | 100.42 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 11.404 | 100.70 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 11.404 | 100.70 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 11.435 | 100.97 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 11.466 | 101.25 % |
less is better |
Super Pi 1.5 XS - 32M | sec | Percent |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 606.295 | 97.40 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 607.120 | 97.53 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 608.978 | 97.83 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 609.976 | 97.99 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 609.992 | 97.99 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 610.959 | 98.15 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 611.115 | 98.18 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 613.299 | 98.53 % |
Intel DP67BG | 615.530 | 98.89 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 623.877 | 98.88 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 620.803 | 99.73 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 620.928 | 99.75 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 621.552 | 99.85 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 621.942 | 99.91 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 622.473 | 100.00 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 623.002 | 100.08 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 623.143 | 100.11 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 623.549 | 100.17 % |
less is better |
wPrime is based on a multithreaded algorithm to calculate the square root to up to 32 billion digits. Therefore it is possible to put 100 percent load on every core or thread and to see differences between architectures.
wPrime - 32M | sec | Percent |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 9.263 | 100.00 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 9.264 | 100.01 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 9.268 | 100.05 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 9.280 | 100.18 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 9.298 | 100.38 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 9.298 | 100.38 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 9.314 | 100.55 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 9.469 | 102.22 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 9.595 | 103.58 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 9.642 | 104.09 % |
Intel DP67BG | 9.657 | 104.25 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 9.658 | 104.26 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 9.733 | 105.07 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 9.748 | 105.24 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 9.779 | 105.57 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 9.812 | 105.93 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 9.953 | 107.45 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 9.966 | 107.59 % |
less is better |
Crysis is still one of the games which has very high system requirements. Therefore developer Crytek implemented Direct3D-10-API, High-Dynamic-Range-Rendering, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Soft Shadows, Motion Blur, Depth of Field as well as Soft Particles. We test Crysis by using DirectX9 to show CPU-sacaling especially which low resolutions. If we look at the high resolutions we are able to spot that the CPUs influence compared to the graphic card becomes much less important.
Crysis DirectX9 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 90.16 | 104.04 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 90.16 | 104.04 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 89.80 | 103.62 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 89.75 | 103.57 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 89.05 | 102.76 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 89.01 | 102.71 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 86.66 | 100.00 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 86.61 | 99.94 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 84.64 | 97.67 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 84.64 | 97.67 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 84.26 | 97.23 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 84.13 | 97.08 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 83.88 | 96.79 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 83.43 | 96.27 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 83.42 | 96.26 % |
Intel DP67BG | 83.27 | 96.09 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 81.77 | 94.36 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 81.22 | 93.72 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro (with Lucid Virtu) | 78.94 | 91.09 % |
more is better |
Resident Evil uses nearly every modern rendering technology: HDR, Hemisphere Lighting, Soft Shadows, Soft Particles, Field- und Motion-Blur oder auch Alpha to Coverage and static Ambient Occlusion. Furthermore Resident Evil 5 has been optimized for multicore architectures and already comes DirectX11 ready. By using the DirectX9 benchmark we can again show CPU-scaling with low resolutions and the compared to the CPU overproportional influence of the graphics card at high resolutions.
Resident Evil DirectX9 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 175.1 | 107.23 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 174.8 | 107.04 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 174.5 | 106.86 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 174.5 | 106.86 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 174.4 | 106.80 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 174.1 | 106.61 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 173.4 | 106.18 % |
Intel DP67BG | 172.6 | 105.70 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 171.6 | 105.08 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 169.5 | 103.80 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 169.4 | 103.74 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 167.3 | 102.45 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 169.4 | 103.74 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 169.3 | 103.67 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 168.5 | 103.18 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro (with Lucid Virtu) | 167.0 | 102.27 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 166.7 | 102.08 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 166.5 | 101.96 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 163.3 | 100.00 % |
more is better |
Street Fighter 4 comes with an extra benchmark version which makes testing you system childrens play. At low resolutions the system requirements are pretty low and we can see CPU-scaling in the results. At high resolution the graphic card becomes more important and the CPUs clock speed has less influence on the fps.
Street Fighter 4 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 573.97 | 100.73 % |
Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 569.79 | 100.00 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 569.21 | 99.90 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 568.30 | 99.74 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 568.25 | 99.73 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 568.00 | 99.69 % |
Asus P8P67-M EVO | 567.88 | 99.66 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 563.66 | 98.92 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 550.85 | 96.68 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 547.15 | 96.03 % |
ASUS P8H67-M Evo | 543.94 | 95.46 % |
ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe | 543.77 | 95.43 % |
Intel mATX DH67BL | 541.17 | 94.98 % |
Intel DP67BG | 538.99 | 94.59 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 529.11 | 92.86 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 523.83 | 91.93 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 523.70 | 91.91 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 514.97 | 90.38 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro (with Lucid Virtu, only integrated graphics active) | 163.34 | 28.67 % |
more is better |
CPU-z | MHz | Percent |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
Intel DP67BG | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 4'600 | 88.46 % |
more is better |
Super Pi 1M | sec |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 | 7.195 |
Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 7.207 |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 | 7.214 |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro | 7.216 |
ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z | 7.222 |
ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 7.241 |
MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 7.252 |
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 | 7.264 |
Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 7.282 |
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 7.298 |
MSI P67A-GD65 | 7.302 |
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional | 8.128 |
less is better |
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Allgemein | + | - | |
Like its predecessor the P67A-UD5-B3, the Z68X-UD5-B3 really is able to convince us. Also with this board you get Gigabytes new color scheme which in our opionion is the best looking at the moment. The layout has been very well thought too and there is almost nothing that could have been better. In our opinion Gigabyte made a reasonable descision concerning the video outputs you can get with Z68 based motherboards. On the UD5 you wont find any of them. If customers pay more than CHF 200 for a board they will buy a dedicated graphics card or they'll already own one. If furthermore, you consider that Lucids Virtu Software is a flop there are even more pro arguments supporting this descision. | - Design - Layout |
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Layout | + | - | |
Generally the Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3s layout is very well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as the power-, reset as well as CLR-COMOS button. Unfortunately there is no debug display which could become very useful in case you should have issues with a component in your system or the board itself. Furthermore the placement of the PCI-Express x16 and PCI-Express x8 slots is well thought too. Inbetween them there are two additional slots - a PCI-Express x1 and a legacy PCI slot - which means that it's even possible to build a SLI/CrossFire Setup with triple slot cards. The only thing we didn't like about the layout concerns the PCI-Express x1 slot right next to the northbridge cooler. It has been place that close the it's almost useless. | - Angled SATA connectors - Oboard Power/Reset/CLR-CMOS-Buttons |
- PCI-Express x1 slot too close to the northbridge cooler - No Debug display | |
Performance | + | - | |
This board really was able to convice regarding performance. Therefore in a lot of benchmarks it's been able to score very well. In SuperPi, SiSoft Sandra as well as 3DMark Vantage you often find this thing leading our charts. Only WPrime and 3DMark 11 CPU could have really been better. | -
Super Pi - SiSoft Sandra - 3DMark Total |
- wPrime - 3DMark 11 CPU |
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Overclocking / BIOS | + | - | |
Focussing only on the settings, overclocking definitely isn't something unknown for the Z68X-UD5-B3. Furthermore we also reached the maximum clock speed of our test CPU, which is 5'200 MHz. Taking a closer look at the Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B5's BIOS reveals that it's once again well structured. You'll quickly find all the different settings and it also resets itself if you should set values that do not work. | - Well structured BIOS
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Recommendation | + | - | |
If you want to build a gaming PC with or a desktop rig that really has some grunt then the Z68X-UD5-B3 might be an alternative for you. Even for enthusiasts or overclockers this board be worth a try. | -
Gaming PC - Performance Desktop - Enthusiast |
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Rating | |||
We give the Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 three out of five stars. |