GIMP Image Editing

Website: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)


Despite its extra memory bandwidth and Base Clock overclock, the image editing performance of the Gigabyte was still a few seconds slower than the other boards on average. The Asus board stretched ahead by several seconds when all the boards were overclocked.

Handbrake H.264 Encoding

Website: HandBrake
Our test uses HandBrake - an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows - to encode a high resolution MPEG-2 video using the H.264 codec. This primarily tests multi-threaded CPU and memory subsystem performance.


Again, the Gigabyte board almost matches the other boards tested, and matches the Asus board when overclocked. This is a good result for the micro-ATX Gigabyte, as it's going toe-to-toe with a premium ATX board that costs significantly more.

Multi-tasking Performance

Website: MPC-HC
Website: 7-Zip


The multi-tasking performance matches the Asus board at stock speeds, but drops a few seconds behind the MSI. Possibly more significantly the Gigabyte lags behind when all the boards are overclocked too. The result is at least consistent with the competition, but the Gigabyte isn't the fastest board in this system-wide test, despite the higher overclock than the MSI.