Performance
I always like to point out that basic benchmarks typically don’t show much of a difference between motherboards with the same chipset. Frankly, a lot of the testing you see in reviews anymore mostly just shows that you ran the board at all. I personally run a few tests to make sure nothing is out of line, but I don’t stress the differences when they are close. All of the boards have been tested with the exact same GPU, CPU, and Memory and unless you are overclocking those are the parts that set our stock performance. That said the Z270I, even though it is a much smaller board than most of the boards tested, performed on par with the others and seems to be in line with the competition.
I did test out the Network performance, both on the wired Intel NIC and the Wireless AC. This is one of the few areas that you see some variation due to different network cards being used and with wireless, even the antennas make a difference. Wired the Z270I was basically right in line with the other fastest board that was also an Asus board using an Intel NIC. On wireless, I saw a bit more performance compared to the other boards tested with wireless AC. More importantly, unlike the Gigabyte board, the Z270I didn’t have weird fluctuations in the wireless signal and performed extremely well in the exact same testing situation.
3DMark |
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Motherboard |
Overall Score |
Graphics Score |
Physics Score |
up MSI Z270 SLI PLUS |
11087 |
12951 |
14627 |
Gigabyte Z270X Gaming K7 |
11151 |
13073 |
14604 |
Asus Strix Z270E Gaming |
11124 |
13105 |
14023 |
Asus Strix H270F Gaming |
11104 |
13064 |
14198 |
Gigabyte Z270N Gaming 5 |
11175 |
13128 |
14621 |
Asus Strix Z270I Gaming |
11211 |
13171 |
14594 |
PCMark 8 Home Accelerated Score |
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MSI Z270 SLI PLUS |
5063 |
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Gigabyte Z270X Gaming K7 |
5191 |
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Asus Strix Z270E Gaming |
5213 |
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Asus Strix H270F Gaming |
4598 |
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Gigabyte Z270N Gaming 5 |
5064 |
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Asus Strix Z270I Gaming |
4829 |
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Passmark PerformanceTest 9.0 Overall Score |
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MSI Z270 SLI PLUS |
6228.7 |
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Gigabyte Z270X Gaming K7 |
6415.7 |
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Asus Strix Z270E Gaming |
6169.8 |
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Asus Strix H270F Gaming |
5935.0 |
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Gigabyte Z270N Gaming 5 |
6240.4 |
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Asus Strix Z270I Gaming |
6161.8 |
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Average FPS |
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MSI Z270 SLI PLUS |
45.3 FPS |
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Gigabyte Z270X Gaming K7 |
45.2 FPS |
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Asus Strix Z270E Gaming |
45.4 FPS |
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Asus Strix H270F Gaming |
43.7 FPS |
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Gigabyte Z270N Gaming 5 |
43.8 FPS |
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Asus Strix Z270I Gaming |
43.9 FPS |
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Hitman 2016 Average FPS |
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MSI Z270 SLI PLUS |
84.69 FPS |
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Gigabyte Z270X Gaming K7 |
81.74 FPS |
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Asus Strix Z270E Gaming |
83.92 FPS |
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Asus Strix H270F Gaming |
82.64 FPS |
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Gigabyte Z270N Gaming 5 |
82.79 FPS |
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Asus Strix Z270I Gaming |
82.98 FPS |
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Average Network Speed |
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MSI Z270 SLI PLUS |
928.0 Mbits/Sec |
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Gigabyte Z270X Gaming K7 - Killer E2500 |
884.5 Mbits/Sec |
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Gigabyte Z270X Gaming K7 - Intel NIC |
895.4 Mbits/Sec |
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Asus Strix Z270E Gaming – Intel NIC |
936.9 Mbits/Sec |
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Asus Strix Z270E Gaming – Qualcomm Wireless AC |
232.7 Mbits/Sec |
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Asus Strix H270F Gaming |
924.1 Mbits/Sec |
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Gigabyte Z270N Gaming 5 - Intel NIC |
928.2 Mbits/Sec |
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Gigabyte Z270N Gaming 5 – Intel Wireless AC |
231.0 Mbits/Sec |
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Asus Strix Z270I Gaming – Intel NIC |
936.5 Mbits/Sec |
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Asus Strix Z270I Gaming – Wireless AC |
240.8 Mbits/Sec |