Gigabyte Z790 AORUS MASTER X DDR5 E-ATX 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 Master X is an expensive board, but well, so are most of the boards we’ve tested. However, it holds its own, with a score of 8987 points overall, and a strong CPU score of 8946, which is firmly on par with other high-end boards.

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.

In PCMark 10 Express, all the boards scored broadly similar, with the Master X hitting 6507, which is certainly competitive and tells us there are no unwanted bottlenecks 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.

This is a great test for stressing the CPU and VRM, and while not as fast as I would have liked at 383 seconds, it’s well within what we expect to see from this CPU.

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.

The single-core speeds are right on track hitting just over 1900, and again, the multi-core performance is right on track with similarly high-end motherboards such as the AORUS Z790 Pro X.

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.

Again, it seems the performance on this motherboard is remarkably consistent, albeit it did deliver the fastest memory write times, but only by a small margin, and the latency is pretty much the average of all the boards, but overall still quite low, which is great to see.