ASUS TUF Z370-Pro Gaming Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

Boom, the TUF Pro comes out swinging, setting our fastest ever score for stock clocks. That’s a great place to start for any motherboard. It dropped to second place once overclocked, but only just, and that’s still a sweet score.

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Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

Switching to a more GPU bound task to test the PCIe throughput, the TUF scored strongly, showing a clean score for Unigine on our GTX 1080 Ti. Overclocking gave a small boost too, which is always nice to see.

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PCMark 10 Express

Another fantastic score for the TUF, setting our second highest PCMark 10 Express score and beating out a few other new Z370 motherboards in the process. One overclocked, the score saw a nice bump up to 6587 too. Overall, the i7-8700K and the TUF motherboard make a fantastic team.

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WPrime 32M and 1024M

The WPrime score is competitive too, not the fastest, but about where it should be for the chosen CPU and this chipset. There’s a nice boost from overclocking, but the other ASUS boards still have the lead here, at least for Z370.

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Cinebench R15

Again, the motherboard is second place for the Z370 hardware at stock clocks. Of course, it’s not worth comparing those crazy X399 and X299 motherboards for Cinebench, but when it comes to consumer boards, the TUF is one of the fastest we’ve ever tested. What’s worth pointing out though, is that while Multi-Core test was fast, the TUF set our highest ever Single-Core performance score at 208. Overclocking, it was the fastest Z370 motherboard around, giving us more reasons to praise this board.

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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

The handbrake score was great too, right where we expected it to be and blazing fast for a consumer grade motherboard/CPU combination.

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