Synthetic Benchmarks

The Asrock Z87 Extreme11/ac performed well in Cinebench R11.5 as it just beat the multi-threading and single threaded CPU scores of the Asrock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer and MSI Z87 XPower.

The Asrock Z87 Extreme11/ac just managed to outscore the MSI Z87 XPower in the graphics test, while it was a fraction slower in the physics test. You will notice that the Core i7-4960X dominated the physics test with a score of 13872pts thanks to its twelve threads.

The Asrock Z87 Extreme11/ac scored 29678pts in 3DMark 06 making it just 80pts slower than the Asrock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer, though it was 621pts faster than the MSI Z87 XPower.

Again, the Asrock Z87 Extreme11/ac trailed the Asrock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer, though this time by a very slim margin.

The PCMark 8 home suite was won by the Asrock Z87 Extreme11/ac, as it narrowly defeated the Asrock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer and MSI Z87 XPower motherboards.

The Asrock Z87 Extreme11/ac trailed the MSI Z87 XPower in PCMark 8's creative suite.

Tthe Asrock Z87 Extreme11/ac, Asrock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer and MSI Z87 XPower all provided virtually the same score in the PCMark 8 work suite.

The last synthetic benchmark is based on PCMark 8's applications office suite and the MSI Z87 XPower commanded a strong lead over the Asrock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer, while it was just a fraction faster than the Asrock Z87 Extreme11/ac.