I tested desktop performance initially using Futuremark’s PCMark05, SuperPi, Cinebench and the x264 HD benchmark.

PCMark05 is a benchmarking suite from futuremark. It tests many aspects of desktop computing for a good overall impression of system performance.


PCMark05.

The results are as expected with the identical stock speeds from the ECS to Extreme virtually matching.

SuperPi is a much used benchmarking tool to identify raw computing performance.


SuperPi.

As in previous reviews the biggest boost in performance comes from the increase of clockspeed rather than core count. Ram timings and other system clocks also effect the results as can be seen between the stock HEX results from the Extreme (faster) and the ECS (slower).