Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming K3 Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

A score of 21848 is undoubtedly decent while running a stock CPU. It’s obviously not the fastest, but it’s competitive given the features and price range of this motherboard.

Stock

Overclocked

Overclocking soon had the K3 rubbing shoulders with the best of the best, hitting a score of 23777. While it’s not at the top, it’s hardly a million miles away from the top spot.

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

Again the K3 scores a little low, but still pretty much on par with everything else on the market at stock speeds.

Stock

Overclocked

Once again, as soon as we overclock, the results are pretty much identical across the board. There is no issue with PCIe throughput here!

PCMark 10 Express

The K3 had no trouble putting the power down for out 8th Gen CPU, delivering a respectable score of 5393 in PCMark 10 Express.

Stock

Overclocked

It seems buying this motherboard and CPU and not overclocking would be madness. As you can see, the score shot up to a much healthier 6282 once we hit 5 GHz.

WPrime 32M and 1024M

A very competitive time in WPrime, beating out all other Z370 motherboards, which was surprising given it’s about mid-range in other benchmarks.

Stock

Overclocked

Cinebench R15

For Cinebench, the K3 performed at the top of the mid-range motherboards, scoring high with 1435 at stock, and 1643 once overclocked.

Stock

Overclocked

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

Stock

Handbrake is very CPU bound, and there’s little to no difference between motherboards. That being said, the K3 put out a solid time, beating out many others by 0.9 FPS, which is very good indeed. It also hit 61 FPS while overclocked, which is also very competitive.

Overclocked