ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 Review

Memory Bandwidth and GeekBench

Memory bandwidth figures are in line with what one would expect from the default X.M.P profile. There are minor differences between the Phantom Gaming 9 and it’s stable mate the Phantom Gamin ITX/AC. By and large though they deliver identical performance. The overclocked DDR4 4200MHz numbers improve the read and copy performance, but write performance goes backwards. This isn’t difficult to remedy though as it’s down to the DRAM timings AUTO rules as set by the BIOS.

A favorite among overclockers, the two GeekBench benchmarks respond well to memory tuning and work well as benchmarks which can reliably account for tuning differences between motherboards. Nothing out of the ordinary here, but once again the ITX/AC manages to pip the Phantom Gaming 9. Naturally this will not translate into anything in real world application use. These differences are nothing manual DRAM tuning cannot account for. As you’d expect the overclocked CPU frequency of 5GHz along with the 1000MT/s increase in DRAM frequency increase in the score substantially.

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