ASUS ROG STRIX X470-F Gaming Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

As a gaming motherboard, the ASUS F Gaming obviously has to deliver on one front. Of course, it’s out of the gates strong, with 21280 points in 3DMark, our highest X470 score so far, and a big improvement over X370 too. The same is true with Unigine, scoring a very high 5597 and that bodes well for upcoming GPU bound tasks such as gaming. In PCMark 10 and WPrime, all X470 motherboards perform about the same, which is to say they all do very well too.

Of course, just like the older X370 motherboards with the Ryzen 1800X we tested last year, the F Gaming blasts through CPU heavy tasks with the 2700X CPU at the helm. In Cinebench is scored 1862, beating out the other X470 motherboards by 60-80 points overall, while also having a slightly higher single core performance.

Once overclocked, the good figures just kept on coming, but again, it’s amazing just how close all three of the X470 motherboards we’ve tested so far are to each other. They pretty much jockey back and forth for first place with each other from benchmark to benchmark. However, once overclocked the 3DMark and Unigine scores actually went down a little, but still performed really well overall. Furthermore, the WPrime score was just 91.447, which is phenomenal for any CPU and the fastest we’ve had for X470 so far, albeit by a small margin.

3DMark Firestrike

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Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

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PCMark 10 Express

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WPrime 32M and 1024M

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Cinebench R15

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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

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