The GIGABYTE B360 Gaming 3 WIFI Review: A Cheaper Alternative at $120
by Joe Shields on July 11, 2018 9:45 AM ESTGaming Performance
AoTS Escalation
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.
For the AOTSe results in 1080p, the B360 board ran with an average of 43 FPS. This result places it among its peers within about 1 FPS from most results in a pretty tight group. 4K UHD results placed the board right in the middle of the pack. Nothing is out of place here.
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.
The Rise of the Tomb Raider results has the B360 Gaming 3 WIFI producing 36.8 FPS in the 4K UHD testing and 88.1 at 1080p. The 1080p result is a couple of FPS behind the group, like the H370N, similar to how our WinRAR testing was slow. This means that the benchmark is likely affected by a memory issue, which we've only see on on some GIGABYTE boards so far.
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Galcobar - Friday, July 13, 2018 - link
It would be good if the site could make a decision on whether to follow the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) conventions, or not. The reader shouldn't be left guessing based on the author. There's a reason every newspaper has a style guide: consistency.timecop1818 - Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - link
At least this board comes with Intel lan. When z370 first came out i was looking at gigabyte and every board had killer and or rgb cancer, so goodbye gigabyte, you've lost a customer.The_Assimilator - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
WTF is "burification", apart from a complete failure to have a barely competent editor?nwrigley - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
Genuine question here:Why would anyone choose this board when the GIGABYTE H370 is only $10 more?
rocky12345 - Thursday, July 12, 2018 - link
Looks like a fairly good board for the price. To bad Intel likes to lock everything down on anything not the top chip set or K SKU CPU's. This board and CPU were not performing worse than the other boards with 8700K's and z370 chip set because of no MCE support it got worse scores because you can not push your memory to it's rated speed EG: 3200MHz will only run at 2667MHz on the lower tier chip sets. It really shows the worse performance you get in games because Intel refuses to remove the memory speed locks on the lower tier chip sets.A lot of sites refer to it as over clocking your memory when you run it at it's rated speed. So if you buy 3200MHz and run it at that but because Intel or AMD support a slower speed in their PR crap you are over clocking it. My own thoughts are I buy 3200Mhz memory I run it at that if it says 3200Mhz on the package then I am running it at it's rated speed. Now if I run it at 3400Mhz then yes I am over clocking it. I get that if Intel or AMD rate a supported speed on their CPU's and have tested them at that speed and have not tested beyond that. We all know more so for Intel that whatever they rate for the speed you will go much higher same for AMD to a lesser extent.
Point is Intel needs to stop the crap and at least unlock things so we can run our memory we bought and paid for to be able to run it at the rated speeds that are on the package. Tghis is why the 8700K sucked a bit more on this chip set and performed much better on the better chip set. Wake up Intel and get your crap together or AMD may just roll over you on the next Ryzen release. Which would be a real shame considering I am a dude that likes my shiny new Intel CPU's but at the same time I do not like being forced into buying the extreme best of the best so I can play around with my system a bit. I built a new system for a customer a couple weeks ago and let me tell you it was pretty boring going into the UEFI and seeing all the things you can not change because of a non K CPU and the memory would not budge 1MHz over 2667MHz but hey you sure could down clock it. Greedy Greedy Greedy maybe with the CEO gone the next one will fix this type of thing and Intel can go back to being the great company they used to be.
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