BIOSTAR Racing Z370GT6 Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

Straight away, the GT6 is showing its racing pedigree, hitting our 5th fastest score for 3DMark, making it the fastest mid-range motherboard in the Z370 range. When we overclocked, it moved to 7th place but still set a superb score of 23844.

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Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

Unigine is a very GPU bound task, making it great for testing PCIe throughput. The GT6 scored a super quick 5547 at stock and 5515 while overclocked. Yes, the score dropped, but it’s all still within the ideal range we expected.

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PCMark 10 Express

The new 8th Gen CPUs are no slouch when it comes to day-to-day work and multi-tasking. The GT6 scored strongly with 6101 at stock, putting it with similarly specification motherboards. Overclocking did provide a welcome boost though, hitting 6284 points.

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Overclocked

WPrime 32M and 1024M

The WPrime scores are superb and easily competitive with the higher-end of the Z370 range. Of course, overclocking took the time from an already impressive 107.667 down to 102.021.

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Cinebench R15

Cinebench scores don’t differ much for the Z370 motherboards, but with 1544 at stock and 1639, the GT6 is obviously competitive with anything else in the Z370 market.

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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

The same is true with Handbrake, it’s a very CPU bound task, and motherboard choice makes little difference on Z370. The GT6 scored right where I expected it to, hitting 58.9 at stock, and boosting to 60.9 while overclocked. That’s pretty good given it’s rendering a 4K file.

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