Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master 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.

Well, it’s certainly not a slow motherboard, scoring an impressive 20987 points in TimeSpy, with 18555 points in the CPU score, so right on the money for Z790.

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, it’s not the fastest motherboard here, but it’s right in line with what to expect from this chipset, and it’s certainly nothing to complain about.

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.

That big VRM configuration should let the CPU hit its boost without falter though, and that can be seen here, with one of our fastest Super Pi times of just 4.49.

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.

Again, really strong performance here, hitting 37935 on all cores, but also 2281 on the single core performance.

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.

This is more to test that memory performance is as expected, rather than who’s the fastest, but as you can see, it is on the higher side anyway, if only by a small margin.

These feature-packed boards typically have higher latency, as can be seen across almost all the Z790 boards, but again, it’s right in line with what I expected to see.