I saw that ASUS have released 5021 which is non-beta so I decided to flash as I had more free time today.
My first impressions are not very positive (read, "negative") - the scores in Cinebench R20 / R23 / R24 are down across the board between 5 and 10 percent! My 3D Mark score in Time Spy Extreme dropped by 3% (from 16K to 15,5K, I am running RTX 4090) although it is heavily GPU-dependent. I don't have any explanation for the lower scores besides the new BIOS as I keep one and the same BIOS settings all the time, and I haven't updated to Windows 11 24H2 yet (if it matters) so my results are comparable to the old ones I took 6 months ago, when I flashed to 5013. My only fault is that I didn't execute the benchmarks immediately before updating but it was hard to expect such a noticeable difference.
On top of that, when I started Windows for the first time after the update, several programs froze a few minutes after I logged in. I could not even restart Windows properly because the restart was hanging so I had to shut down forcefully from the Power button. It might be a one time thing but it doesn't contribute to "first good impressions".
I have flashed to almost every BIOS version since I have this system since March 2020 and this is the first time that I feel disappointed by the changes. Unfortunately, it is also very likely that this will be the last version released for this mobo. I start to seriously consider an upgrade to a X870 system in the coming months (especially after the announcement of 9800X3D).
I would be interested if somebody else shares his impressions as there were no complaints from the beta 5020, and 5021 should be virtually the same.
