The ASRock X299 Extreme4 Motherboard Review: $200 Entry To HEDT

Gaming Performance

Ashes of the Singularity

Ashes of the Singularity is a Real Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any system differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system don't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph. 

Our AOTSe testing continues to be a tight-knit dataset with almost 2 frames per second separating things in the more CPU heavy 1080p setting. The ASRock X299 Extreme 4 performed will in the 1080p testing coming in second at 44.4 FPS, but lagged behind a bit in 4K testing at 33.1 FPS. This was one FPS lower (about 3%) than the next fastest result and a new low. That said, the performance difference between the fastest and slowest is literally 2 FPS, or a bit less than 6%. 

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.

Rise of the Tomb Raider results continues to be close together with the board delivering 94.1 FPS at 1080p and 40.2 FPS using 4K UHD resolution. Thes results have it as the fastest and second fastest in our ROTR testing.