The GIGABYTE X470 Gaming 7 Wi-Fi Motherboard Review: The AM4 Aorus Flagship
by Gavin Bonshor on July 26, 2018 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- AMD
- Gigabyte
- AORUS
- Ryzen
- X470
- Ryzen 2
- Gaming 7 Wi-Fi
- Gaming 7
Gaming 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.
In rather a poor showing, the X470 Gaming 7 doesn't seem to be competitive in the gaming tests. Most tests the differences are minimal, however coming bottom in all seems to indicate an issue splitting performance between the CPU and the GPU, perhaps related to how power is distributed.
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vicbee - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
I know, right? I think this article was voice to text - or whatever that's called, because there are simple words that are spelled wrong but sound correct, such as "..however the margins are theme." Are what?asmian - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
Let's also call out "would of" instead of "would have", a schoolboy error any competent editor should have picked up. :(AdrianB1 - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
The proper command of the English language is no longer required to write articles on Anandtech. Anand left a long time ago.hansmuff - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
"The lackluster gaming results brings the overall results down, however the margins are theme."My sides. Really, Anandtech, you need to have an editor or at least rigid peer review. This article is written rather poorly.
PhrogChief - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
I specifically do not buy Gigabyte anymore because of the stupid name and silly eagle. What ever happened to the UD5, UD7, Formula OC? I'm sure I'm not the only one being lost to teenage 'gamer' marketing. I mean, is it so hard to come up with some non-lame marketing? Make it look nice with a slick name like Spectre, or whatever. So sick of stupid brands on electronics like the msi dragon and gigabyte, oh wait, AEOOORUSSSS, deformed bird. This isn't cereal. It's gdammed high tech. Make it slick and sophisticated. And make heatsinks that actually work again! Now get off my lawn!!!AdrianB1 - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
Aorus is kind of a "Goldie"/"Goldish" for Latin languages. Gold in Latin is Aurum.I specifically don't buy Gigabyte because they save 1$ using Realtek LAN instead of Intel (an Intel chip is $1.75). The performance difference is small, but worth more than the extra $1 if one also considers drivers and reliability.
Breadwinka - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
But this is using an Intel Lan.AdrianB1 - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
Correct. But only a couple from the dozen of variants are using Intel LAN, the ones with the most flashy and useless configuration for professional use. If you want a reasonable setup (no "gaming" or other childish features) then you only get Realtek LAN. I would gladly pay more than $10 for a decent mobo with Intel LAN.Ratman6161 - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
In the text you say "is capable of 3.90 GHz at 1.375 V" but in the chart you say 3.9 at 1.325. Are you saying that less voltage was required on the x470 than in tests with previous chipsets? I have found that to be true in my particular case. I moved my 1700 from an Asrock B350 board where it was at 4.0 and 1.38. On my Prime x470 pro, the same CPU still will not hit 4.1 without more voltage than I'm willing to risk. So I stuck to 4.0 and reduced the voltage to 1.35 and its completely stable. Next I'm going to try lowering it even more to find the lowest voltage where its stable at 4.0.So even though I'm not hitting higher speeds, I'd say that hitting the same speed at lower voltages is a good thing.
PhrogChief - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
Yeah, took Latin for 4 years, actually thought they were bastardising ancient Egyptian with a homage to Horus, what with the bird and all. If it was me, I'd nuke EVERY.GDAM.ANIMAL, in computer hardware branding. I don't need a bank-robber on ASUS boards to make me want it. Gimme the chipset, a 'plus' or 'deluxe' and call it a day.Asus WS boards are my idea of perfect looking hardware.