ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Extreme Motherboard Review

UT3 is the fourth game in the Unreal Tournament series.  It has no story mode gameplay and is exclusively designed for multiplayer action.  While the gameplay and weapons are similar to the UT2004 counterpart, the gaming engine is all new.  For this benchmark, we're using the UT3Bench tool from Guru3D, and CarbonFire Botmatch to record framerates.  The resolution was set to 800x600 to minimize any performance gains from the video card.

Cinebench is a real-world cross-platform test suite that evaluates your computer's hardware capabilities.  Previous versions of this benchmark are used to collect HWBOT points and it has been a common entry into the competitive benchmarking lineup.  This is benchmark is purely CPU based with very little impact related to GPU selection or memory type and one of the best benchmarks for testing multi core processors.

The latest generation of the premier PC performance metric featuring new Office Applications, General Productivity, Photo Editing, and Advanced Content Creation.  The Office Application scenario features updated workloads for popular office suite-style applications. The General Productivity scenario features tasks like web browsing, file compression, and application installation. The new Photo Editing scenarios measure the responsiveness of creative photo management and manipulation usage models. The Advanced Content Creation scenario heavily uses photo and video editing applications, including multitasking.

PCMark 10 is an overall system benchmark to measure and compare PC performance using real-world tasks and applications. Similar to 3DMark this new version tests the entire system as a whole using applications that reflect typical PC use in the home and at the office.  This approach ensures that PCMark measures the things that matter, highlighting performance differences that will be apparent to end users and consumers.

Our real world benchmarks are designed to illustrate a cross section in performance that covers gaming, video encoding, content creation and everyday office applications.  The results are pretty straight forward and show some good numbers across the board and reflect some of what was shown on the Synthetic page.  Normally performance differences can be attributed to UEFI tuning and memory compatibility where even the slightest change can have a big impact on real world applications.
 
It should be noted that DirectX 11/12+ is not represented in our motherboard reviews because the results are almost purely based on the video card selected and very little to do with motherboard performance.  Likewise, the benchmarks we have chosen respond well to minor changes in memory bandwidth and how efficient the system configuration is overall.  

Finally, we test our systems we do so with the default and auto assigned settings in place so to represent un-turned and out of box performance.  (read: default user setups).  Your performance may vary depending on the time you spent tuning your hardware.