Performance
Tests were performed on the Intel Coffee Lake platform which contains the i7-9700K processor, G.Skill TridentZ RGB 16GB DDR4-4266 memory kit, Gigabyte GTX1070 FE graphics card, Samsung 970 EVO 250GB NVMe SSD, HyperX Savage 240GB SATA SSD, and Enermax Platimax 750W 80+ Platinum PSU. CPU has been cooled by Enermax LIQMAX 240 AIO so pretty typical for a gaming PC.
Let’s begin the tests.
Cinebench R15 is a great rendering benchmark which quickly shows if everything is right with our PC under higher load. As we can see, result is as high as expected and there are no problems with stability.
Below we can see memory and cache performance in AIDA64 benchmark. Results are high and some tweaking would make them even better. All is possible on the C9Z390-CG-IW and that I will show you later.
All 3D benchmarks from UL, also known as Futuremark, are performing well. Results are as high as expected and we can compare them to the top results achieved on the Z370 and Z390 motherboards in our redaction. Below are results from VRMark which is showing us performance in virtual reality.
Similar story in the Time Spy and the latest, Night Raid benchmark.
On the screenshots, we can see that the database couldn’t recognize the CPU. I guess that when you are reading this article then the i7-9700K, even the engineering sample, is already in the database.
Let’s go back to the benchmarks. Next in line is PCMark 8 and 10. Both are showing PC performance in a home and office environment. We are focusing on some tests which are showing us what is the most important.
PCMark 10 (above) and PCMark 8 Creative accelerated (below) are showing how well the PC handles popular applications, text editors, website content, graphics, and simple games. All the tests passed without issues and are close to what we could see on the best motherboards based on the Z390 chipset. Simply great performance without any delays.
PCMark 8 has also one really good benchmark which is telling us how the storage performs in our PC. It’s really important as everything has to be loaded first so we could use it in any application. Below is a result made on Samsung 970 EVO 250GB so not the fastest but one of the best performing NVMe SSD.
Since I’ve started with storage benchmarks then below are a couple of results from CrystalDiskMark. It’s one of the most popular storage benchmarks and it’s free so all can compare results on their home PC.
Above is a result made on mentioned Samsung 970 EVO 250GB SSD. While below is a result which is showing performance on SATA SSD.
CrystalDiskMark has one more feature. We are able to check the performance of mapped network drives. Our results are not much lower than the maximum bandwidth of 1Gbit LAN which is in use on the C9Z390-CG-IW. Considering everything else that works in the network then the result is really good.
