Performance
For performance testing, I’ve been saying it for years but the head to head numbers on most benchmarks don’t really help much when comparing board to board. Most of those are dependent on the GPU, CPU, RAM, and even day to day driver updates. I’m mostly just looking for large issues when testing. For example, when I first tested the SLI Plus I noticed all of my numbers were low and it ended up being chipset driver issue, I retested and the numbers are in line across the board. Really the only numbers that can sometimes differ are the network tests because some boards don’t use the same NICs. In this case, MSI went with two solid Intel NICs so the performance was great and had no issues. Overall the SLI Plus performs well as expected, especially when paired with a GTX 1080 Ti and the i9-7900k.
3DMark |
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Motherboard |
Overall Score |
Graphics Score |
Physics Score |
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Asus Prime X299 Deluxe |
19867 |
23755 |
24113 |
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Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 |
20474 |
23567 |
26871 |
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MSI X299 SLI Plus |
19153 |
23712 |
25345 |
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PCMark 10 Score |
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Overall Score |
Essentials |
Productivity |
Content Creation |
Asus Prime X299 Deluxe |
6475 |
9145 |
8486 |
9496 |
Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 |
6402 |
9193 |
7932 |
9764 |
MSI X299 SLI Plus |
6304 |
9355 |
7834 |
9277 |
Passmark PerformanceTest 9.0 Overall Score |
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Asus Prime X299 Deluxe |
5924.0 |
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Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 |
6042.2 |
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MSI X299 SLI Plus |
5816.2 |
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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands Average FPS |
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Asus Prime X299 Deluxe |
113.64 |
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Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 |
115.88 |
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MSI X299 SLI Plus |
113.58 |
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Average FPS |
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Asus Prime X299 Deluxe |
94.3 |
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Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 |
96.9 |
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MSI X299 SLI Plus |
98.7 |
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Average Network Speed |
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Asus Prime X299 Deluxe - Intel I219V NIC |
918.2 |
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Asus Prime X299 Deluxe - Intel I211-AT |
942.0 |
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Asus Prime X299 Deluxe - Wireless AC |
211.8 |
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Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 |
936.6 |
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MSI X299 SLI Plus |
927.1 |