Performance – part 1
All tests were performed on the ASRock Z490 PG Velocita motherboard, i9 10900K processor, XFX RX5600XT THICC III Ultra graphics card, 64GB HyperX Fury DDR4-3200 CL16 memory kit and Samsung 970 EVO SSD on which was installed Windows 10 Pro x64 OS with the latest updates. In tests were also used additional memory kits and storage devices. Everything else will be mentioned during the tests.
Memory performance
The motherboard has no problem handling memory up to DDR4-4700, where was the limit of used Team Xtreem DDR4-4000 memory kit. Most users won’t really go past DDR4-4000, so below is a result in AIDA64 at DDR4-4000 CL18-22-22. This setting is getting popular because on the market, there are many new Hynix based memory kits. The specification says that our motherboard should support DDR4-4666+ memory, even though there are no such high-speed memory kits on the compatibility list. I can confirm it works, and the DDR4-4700 result is in the overclocking section, where I will expand the topic.
The motherboard was also tested with Samsung 8GB and Micron 16GB and 32GB modules from Crucial, G.Skill, and HyperX. There were no issues during tests, and every memory kit could run at XMP settings.
Processor performance and mixed load tests
The performance of our processor is excellent. There were no problems reaching 5.3GHz turbo clock, but of course, when we load all cores, then the frequency will be limited to 4.9GHz.
No problems with compression and decompression tests under high load and used nearly full memory capacity.
There are also no problems with rendering.
As we can see in the Cinebench (above) and the PCMark benchmark series (below), the performance of our test platform is excellent. It’s actually a bit better than previously reviewed SuperO Z490. Nothing really significant but still counts as these are results at default settings, and we didn’t even start overclocking.
PCMark 8 and PCMark 10
PCMark results are quite important as they’re showing how all components work with each other in a mixed load environment. It can be translated into a typical daily work, so what we all do and expect good results. The PG Velocita delivers impressive visible results, especially in digital content creation tests.
