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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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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