Colorful CVN Z790D5 Gaming Frozen 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.

A really strong result for our first benchmark, scoring 21330 and putting it along side some much more expensive motherboards, which is great to see.

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.

PC Mark 10 Express is a good test for an overview of the entire system, and even here, it’s holding up well, with a competitive score of 7144, which is certainly within the ballpark of all the other boards 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.

A really good score here too, at just 4.50 it’s clear that the Colorful board isn’t holding back our CPU in these more demanding benchmarks.

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 Cinebench score is on par with the NZXT Z7 Z790, which is decent, and while there are higher scores here, there’s not a huge deviation between them. Generally those with larger VRM configurations tend to do better though.

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.

Really consistent memory performance here too, again, no records set, but it’s really on the money here, so nothin to complain about either.

Latency is also about what we expected, coming in at just 77.9ns.