The GIGABYTE Aorus AX370-Gaming 5 Review: Dual Audio Codecs
by Gavin Bonshor on November 14, 2017 12:30 PM ESTGaming Performance
Ashes of the Singularity
Seen as the holy child of DirectX12, Ashes of the Singularity (AoTS, or just Ashes) has been the first title to actively go explore as many of DirectX12s features as it possibly can. Stardock, the developer behind the Nitrous engine which powers the game, has ensured that the real-time strategy title takes advantage of multiple cores and multiple graphics cards, in as many configurations as possible.
Rise Of The Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013's Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.
One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 3 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
Thief
Thief has been a long-standing title in PC gamers hearts since the introduction of the very first iteration which was released back in 1998 (Thief: The Dark Project). Thief as it is simply known rebooted the long-standing series and renowned publisher Square Enix took over the task from where Eidos Interactive left off back in 2004. The game itself utilises the fluid Unreal Engine 3 engine and is known for optimised and improved destructible environments, large crowd simulation and soft body dynamics.
Total War: WARHAMMER
Not only is the Total War franchise one of the most popular real-time tactical strategy titles of all time, but Sega delve into multiple worlds such as the Roman Empire, Napoleonic era and even Attila the Hun, but more recently they nosedived into the world of Games Workshop via the WARHAMMER series. Developers Creative Assembly have used their latest RTS battle title with the much talked about DirectX 12 API so that this title can benefit from all the associated features that comes with it. The game itself is very CPU intensive and is capable of pushing any top end system to their limits.
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JTDC - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link
Thanks. Sorry to hear there are so many apparent limitations on what will work on the second slot. It seems hit or miss based on your experience.mr_tawan - Thursday, November 16, 2017 - link
Is the compatibility issues something to do with this particular board, or the platform as a whole ? I mean I've seen a number of expansion card manufacturer explicitly mentioned that their card only works with, only tested, or at least prefer Intel's.khanov - Thursday, November 16, 2017 - link
It is a good question mr_tawan. I tried to get a straight answer from AMD support, but in the end they said it was likely a driver issue (not true) and the cards aren't supported in Windows 10. As you may know, Windows 10 is the only officially supported version of Windows for the AM4 Ryzen platform.But in fact, each of the cards I mentioned is fully supported in Windows 10, with a compatible driver automatically installed when using them in an intel-based pc. Some of them are older cards with no *official* support from the vendor, but they work just fine. So is it platform-wide? No idea, and I'm not buying another motherboard just to find out. But I would sure like to know!
tiwake - Saturday, November 18, 2017 - link
Keep in mind that gigabyte started off selling these boards advertising ECC memory support. Within the last month they pulled ECC memory support from their advertised products and disabled ECC in a firmware update.Sleazy business practice. One that I can not support.