Test Setup

We've updated a lot of our hardware to match recent testing with other platforms since we looked at Intel's mainstream Kaby Lake CPUs earlier this year. We now use a GeForce GTX 1080 as our test GPU along with 16GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB 3,000MHz RAM and a Fractal Design Celcius 24 AIO liquid cooler.

• Motherboard MSI Z370 Godlike Gaming
  
• Memory 16GB (2 x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB 3,000MHz DDR4
  
• GPU Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 AMP! Edition
• PSU Corsair RM850i
• SSD Samsung SSD 850 Pro 256GB (SATA 6Gbps speed tests); Samsung 960 Evo 500GB (M.2 speed tests)
• CPU cooler Fractal Design Celsius 240
• Operating system Windows 10 64-bit

Tests

• Cinebench R15 
  
• PCMark 10 Photo Editing 
  
• HandBrake video transcoding 
  
• Terragen 4 
  
• CPU-Z

Gaming

• 3DMark Time Spy (CPU test) 
  
• VRMark (The Orange Room test)
• Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (CPU test) 
  
• Fallout 4
  
• Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Power

• Power consumption