ASUS ROG STRIX Z790-A Gaming WIFI D4 Review

3DMark Timespy Extreme

Time Spy Extreme is a new 4K DirectX 12 benchmark test, available in 3DMark Advanced and Professional Editions. You don’t need a 4K monitor to run it, but you will need a GPU with at least 4 GB of dedicated memory. With its 4K Ultra HD rendering resolution, Time Spy Extreme is an ideal benchmark test for the latest high-end graphics cards. The CPU test has been redesigned to let processors with 8 or more cores perform to their full potential

3DMark is available on Steam here.

The performance does seem quite low here, but honestly, it’s right on the money, delivering lower performance due to the DDR4 design, but it’s inline with the other two DDR4 motherboards we’ve tested too, so I’m happy with the result.

PCMark 10 Express

PCMark 10 features a comprehensive set of tests that cover the wide variety of tasks performed in the modern workplace. With a range of performance tests, custom run options, Battery Life Profile, and new Storage benchmarks, PCMark 10 is the complete PC benchmark for the modern office.

Available now on Steam.

Despite the limitations of DDR4, of which there are clearly very few, it delivered the second-highest Express score we’ve had, and honestly, that came as a bit of a surprise. I mean, this isn’t a cheap motherboard, but that’s still a big score.

Super PI 2.1 WP

Super PI is a single-threaded benchmark that calculates pi to a specific number of digits. It uses the Gauss-Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of a program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits

Available now on Super PI.

Even in Super Pi it seems there’s no holding back here, wit ha fast time of 4.51 seconds. Not the fastest, but it’s most certainly holding its own against some strong competition.

Cinebench R23

Cinebench is a real-world cross-platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s hardware capabilities. Improvements to Cinebench Release 23 reflect the overall advancements to CPU and rendering technology in recent years, providing a more accurate measurement of Cinema 4D’s ability to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and modern processor features available to the average user. Best of all: It’s free.

Available now on Maxon.

The multi-core performance was a little lower, but not drastically so, but interestingly, it scored our third highest single core performance, which is certainly something to be proud of.

AIDA64

AIDA64 is a system information, diagnostics, and auditing application developed by FinalWire Ltd that runs on Windows, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Tizen, Chrome OS and Sailfish OS operating systems. It displays detailed information on the components of a computer.

Available now on AIDA64.

Naturally, this being DDR4 it was never going to top the charts with all those DDR5 options on display, but honestly, for DDR4 is still delivered extremely competitive performance.

One advantage of DDR4, however, is latency, and this motherboard has the lowest latency of any we’ve tested yet!