ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming Motherboard Review

Cinebench R20

Blender BMW Benchmark

Cinebench R20 shows strong performance from ASUS’ ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming using the latest AGESA ABBA BIOS. ASRock is still in the lead thanks to more aggressive default voltages and the accompanying clock speed boost. According to our logs, ASUS had the Ryzen 9 3900X sat at an average of 4017MHz throughout this all-core load, with 1.235-1.25V being fed as the core voltage.

Single-threaded performance from ASUS is OK, though we expected higher given the use of the latest ABBA AGESA version with supposed boost clock fixes versus ABB on the competing motherboards. Our logs showed a maximum clock speed of 4641MHz, which translates into a 46.5x multiplier. That was for a single data point from our readings taken every 2000 milliseconds. The more reasonable single-core boost clock was 4.60GHz, and the board allowed the preferred CPU core to spend a very healthy amount of time operating at more than 4.50GHz. ASUS looks to have done a good job at deploying the AGESA ABBA BIOS update.

Blender performance from ASUS is on par with that of Gigabyte’s X570 Aorus Master. There is very little between the boards in this test, though ASRock is slightly quicker thanks to far more aggressive default voltage settings and poorer power efficiency.

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