Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX 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 Aorus Elite AX may not be the most expensive, but as I said before, it’s got some pretty serious hardware in all the right places, allowing it to hit our fourth-highest CPU score of 18563 easily enough, making it actually faster than the Aorus Master…but a tiny, tiny amount.

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.

PCMark 10 Express is a good test of overall system performance, and it did drop down the ranks a bit here, but honestly, this is more a test to see if there are any issues in the chain, and it’s well within what we expected to see, so all good here.

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.

As I said though, the CPU performance is absolutely excellent here, with a score of 4.49 putting it as the second fastest to complete this benchmark, and actually tied with the Aorus Master.

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.

Single core performance is flying, with 2287, matching the Frozen for first place, and then 37827 on the multicore leaving it around 100 points away from the Aorus Master, which is extremely impressive.

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.

Memory performance is spot on too, again not looking for highest scores here, not that they wouldn’t also be welcomed, but more that our DDR5 memory is hitting the figures it should be, and it clearly is.

The latency is really good too, actually a little under that of the Master too, which is a pleasant surprise, and overall, the memory performance was pretty fantastic. Weirdly, it’s the boards with fewer features which have the lowest latency, with a few exceptions to that rule.