AIDA64 and CPUZ:
First of all, in order to fully understand the titles in our graphs, we invite you, if you haven’t already done so, to go and read the page dedicated to the protocol in order to understand the different profiles present in the BIOS of our ROG Maximus Z890 APEX concerning the 14th Gen Intel processors as well as the new Core Ultra 200S. The idea behind our choice of benchmarks is mainly to be able to run them at home so that you can compare your readings with ours.
AIDA 64 :
This is a piece of software capable of providing you with a great deal of information about your configuration, but above all it has a memory benchmark. This calculates the read, write and copy speeds, as well as the latency, of your memory kit. It is often used to compare memory kits. It’s an excellent tool if you want to compare the performance of your memory kit with those we’ve already tested. The version used for testing is v7.35.7030 beta.
AIDA64 does not yet seem to take proper account of the new Arrow Lakes. The benchmark states at the end of the test: ” Please note that this AIDA64 Benchmark is not fully optimized for the CPU of this computer “. It will therefore be worth repeating these tests with the next revision of AIDA64.
CPUZ 17.01.64 Benchmark:
Using it couldn’t be easier: just download the latest version of CPU-Z, which is currently version 2.11. Then go to the ‘ Bench ‘ tab to check single-thread and multi-thread performance. The benchmark version we used is 17.01.64.
While the i9-14900KS remains king in this single thread benchmark, it’s the Core Ultra 9 285K that takes first place when all the cores are used, despite the absence of hyper-threading. The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor also performed well.