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
CPU Performance, Short Form
For our motherboard reviews, we use our short form testing method. These tests usually focus on if a motherboard is using MultiCore Turbo (the feature used to have maximum turbo on at all times, giving a frequency advantage), or if there are slight gains to be had from tweaking the firmware. We put the memory settings at the CPU manufacturers suggested frequency, making it very easy to see which motherboards have MCT enabled by default.
Video Conversion – Handbrake v1.0.2: link
Handbrake is a media conversion tool that was initially designed to help DVD ISOs and Video CDs into more common video formats. For HandBrake, we take two videos and convert them to x264 format in an MP4 container: a 2h20 640x266 DVD rip and a 10min double UHD 3840x4320 animation short. We also take the third video and transcode it to HEVC. Results are given in terms of the frames per second processed, and HandBrake uses as many threads as possible.
Compression – WinRAR 5.4: link
Our WinRAR test from 2013 is updated to the latest version of WinRAR at the start of 2017. We compress a set of 2867 files across 320 folders totaling 1.52 GB in size – 95% of these files are small typical website files, and the rest (90% of the size) are small 30 second 720p videos.
Point Calculations – 3D Movement Algorithm Test v2.1: link
3DPM is a self-penned benchmark, taking basic 3D movement algorithms used in Brownian Motion simulations and testing them for speed. High floating point performance, MHz and IPC wins in the single thread version, whereas the multithread version has to handle the threads and loves more cores. For a brief explanation of the platform agnostic coding behind this benchmark, see my forum post here. We are using the latest version of 3DPM, which has a significant number of tweaks over the original version to avoid issues with cache management and speeding up some of the algorithms.
Rendering – POV-Ray 3.7.1b4: link
The Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer, or POV-Ray, is a freeware package for as the name suggests, ray tracing. It is a pure renderer, rather than modeling software, but the latest beta version contains a handy benchmark for stressing all processing threads on a platform. We have been using this test in motherboard reviews to test memory stability at various CPU speeds to good effect – if it passes the test, the IMC in the CPU is stable for a given CPU speed. As a CPU test, it runs for approximately 2-3 minutes on high-end platforms.
Synthetic – 7-Zip 9.2: link
As an open source compression tool, 7-Zip is a popular tool for making sets of files easier to handle and transfer. The software offers up its own benchmark, to which we report the result.
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vkristof - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
So, it's middle of 2018, we a newish top-end AM4 "chipset" - WHY do we still only have two USB 3.1 10 Gbps ports on the rear panel?And why are they STILL not using USB 3.1 10 Gbps controllers/phys in the X470?
I'm not a gamer AT ALL and I buy cost effective HW AND I still fall for the AM4 "chipset" descriptions that list x amount of USB 3.1 Gen 2/10 Gbps controllers in the B350, B450, B370, B470 "Chipsets".
Why an extrenal Asmedia USB 3.1 Gen2/10 Gbps controoler and not the AMD "chipset" itself???
utmode - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
instead putting RGB light they could have put more fan connector.Flappergast - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link
Why is this board get 5% less fps compared to the msi b350 - this board is for high end and 5% is a lot extra if you are looking at SLI - and I dot see why you would not at this price pointMarkPhantasy - Sunday, July 29, 2018 - link
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Dug - Thursday, August 2, 2018 - link
Can we please get some m.2 and ssd benchmarks along with network benchmarks.And why are you using an older chip on new hardware? Can't Anandtech purchase a 2700x or 2800x?
How about sound? Any measurements or at least some tests would be nice.
4 year old graphics card?
How about tests with both m.2 slots filled with a x16 graphics card to see if there is any performance hit?
Mikewind Dale - Friday, February 1, 2019 - link
"And why are you using an older chip on new hardware? Can't Anandtech purchase a 2700x or 2800x?"Probably because they want to keep their benchmark results inter-comparable. If they already have benchmark scores using a 1700 and an X370, then they want to be able to show how much faster the X470 is than the X370 using the same processor (the 1700).
The purpose of a test bed is to keep every component the same except the one component being reviewed. So that means refraining from frequent upgrades to the test bed. If they constantly upgraded the test bed every time a new product came out, then none of the benchmarks would mean anything.
Oxford Guy - Friday, August 10, 2018 - link
"This is apparent as the X470 Gaming 7 has support for DDR4 memory up to speeds of DDR4-3600"Patriot guaranteed 3400 speed in July of 2017, even on B350 and A320 boards with Ryzen 1. This isn't so impressive, the idea that someone should fork over so much cash for a small bump over that.
As for the heatsink... We all know that ASUS came out with a hybrid water/air VRM sink back in 2013 and Gigabyte also later released the same thing — but only for Intel. Funny how even Threadripper isn't important enough to get the kind of board tech ASUS and Gigabyte gave quad core CPUs, before LED lighting and ugly paint jobs was supposed to substitute for substance.
vikkadhamtan - Saturday, August 18, 2018 - link
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