ASUS TUF Gaming B650M-Plus Motherboard Review

3DMark Timespy Extreme

3DMark Time Spy Extreme is a Windows benchmark test that uses DirectX 12 to measure the performance of your gaming PC. It consists of two graphics tests and a CPU test that show complex scenes and simulate game physics and logic. It calculates a score for each test and a combined score for the whole test. You can use it to compare your system with others, test its stability and reliability, and optimize it for better gaming performance.

3DMark is available on Steam here.

This motherboard is no slouch, hitting our second-highest score on 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme for both overall score (9067) and CPU score (9343).

PCMark 10 Express

PCMark 10 Express is a shorter benchmark that focuses on basic home PC use. It includes the Essentials and Productivity test groups. It is less demanding than the main PCMark 10 benchmark. The Essentials test group covers the common tasks that people do every day with their PCs, such as web browsing, video conferencing, and app start-up time. The Productivity test group measures system performance with everyday office applications, such as writing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

Available now on Steam.

PCMark 10 Express is great for stressing overall system performance, and again, it scores extremely well hitting our highest score yet of 6890 which is just fantastic!

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.

And again, it’s killing it here, with our third-fastest time of just 355 seconds, putting it well ahead of many other motherboards.

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.

Available now on Maxon.

And there’s no slowing it down here either, as it delivered the best Cinebench R23 score, even if it’s by a small margin, it’s still the fastest.

AIDA64

AIDA64 memory benchmark is a feature of AIDA64, a system information and diagnostics software. It measures the bandwidth and latency of the CPU caches and the system memory by performing various read, write, copy, and latency tests. It uses different instruction set extensions and optimizations depending on the processor and memory type. It also supports multi-threading, multi-processor, and multi-core systems. You can use it to compare your system performance with others, test its stability and reliability, and optimize it for better performance.

Available now on AIDA64.

Surprisingly, the read, write and copy speeds aren’t that strong here, which is most surprising as the performance thus far has been pretty freaking awesome. However, the latency is very good at just 74.6 and that likely is what’s helping give us such great CPU performance from this motherboard.