AORUS Master Z390 Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

The Master is certainly a competitive motherboard and scores our second highest 3DMark score of all time. Of course, that’s not a bad second place for Aorus, as it’s their Pro motherboard that ever so slightly tipped first place. In Unigine, it’s not the fastest, but it’s certainly up there in regards to GPU throughput, so no issues there.

For PCMark 10, the new i9-9900K is pretty adept, and the Master motherboard along with it. It scored a very respectable 5561, putting it firmly in the high-end for this test and in-line with other Z390 solutions. The same is true of WPrime, where it posted a competitive (with other Z390 boards) time of just 83.564 seconds for the 1024M test.

Cinebench was a standout performance though, hitting an incredible 2071, putting it only two points behind the Z390 leader for that benchmark, and way ahead of the 1865 recorded by the “slowest” Z390 motherboard. Handbrake was pretty consistent for all Z390 motherboard though, with the Aorus Master scoring 74.3 FPS while transcoding 4K video.

Scores

• 3DMark – 24021
• Unigine – 5556
• PCMark 10 – 5611
• WPrime – 3.081/83.564
• Cinebench – 214/2071
• Handbrake – 74.3

3DMark Firestrike

Unigine Superposition

PCMark 10 Express

WPrime

Cinebench R15

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K