ASUS TUF Gaming Z790-Plus WiFi D4 Motherboard 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 TUF gets off to a really great start here, with an impressive score of 18264, which actually puts it a little ahead of the more expensive STRIX version of the same motherboard, but overall very much in line with what we were expecting from this chipset.

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.

Again another result that’s pretty much on the money, scoring 7020 points puts it lower down on the chart, but not wholly unexpected for the DDR4 version of this motherboard vs so many DDR5 ones.

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.

A score of 4.57 isn’t the fastest, but again, this test relies heavily on fast memory throughput, so the DDR5 platform motherboards do pull ahead here, but again, this score is what I expected and far from a problem.

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.

Scoring an impressive 37904 in the multi-core test is a strong result, showing that the CPU’s VRM configuration can really keep up the all-core performance in more demanding rendering tests.

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.

Of course, running on the DDR4 platform not the latest DDR5, the memory performance does look quite a bit lower than many of the boards we’ve tested. However, it’s not bad performance, it’s actually performing very well for DDR4! However, as you see in many of these benchmarks, DDR5 doesn’t provide much of an advantage in a lot of scenarios.