The ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate Motherboard Review: Aquantia 10GbE on Ryzen
by Gavin Bonshor on August 2, 2018 9:00 AM ESTGaming 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.
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AdrianB1 - Friday, August 3, 2018 - link
The implementation can be very different, if only 1 or 2 PCIe 2.0 lanes are linked to the chip the performance is not a known quantity. We know the max speed of the chipset, we don't know how it was implemented on this expensive motherboard.Would you bet your money on a good implementation?Amoro - Thursday, August 2, 2018 - link
Why is there such a noticeable performance delta? Is that B350 Tomahawk doing some weird overclocking?4everalone - Thursday, August 2, 2018 - link
That's a whole lot of work you guys did and I don't mean to discount it in anyway. But it makes me wonder, isn't the point of going for x470 instead of the x370 to take better advantage of what the new processors have to offer? So why go through this full blown review using an older processor? Was the 2700x unavailable at the time you started with this?29a - Thursday, August 2, 2018 - link
They used an odd assortment of games too.DanNeely - Thursday, August 2, 2018 - link
games need to be fully scriptable via commandline for automated data collection, which eliminates a number of otherwise popular games. The gamelist itself is updated about once/year (looks like still v2017), but needs to keep a decent fraction of last years list to allow some comparison between new and old reviews.Ratman6161 - Thursday, August 2, 2018 - link
I suspect the reason is that if they used a 2xxx CPU to test the x470 and B450 boards then they would have to re-test all the x370 and B350 boards in order to make all the tests comparable.pixelstuff - Thursday, August 2, 2018 - link
I'm glad to see another motherboard with a 10G NIC, but I'd really like to the new 2.5G protocol start showing up on everything. Surely that can work in situations where the 10G would be to hot.JlHADJOE - Thursday, August 2, 2018 - link
Dude, you can't just put "Aquantia 10GbE on Ryzen" in the headline and do zero network testing. This review is a total bait and switch!Flappergast - Thursday, August 2, 2018 - link
Please explain why this new top Board is doing 47.8 FPS while the old budget board msi b350 is doing 52.5 FPS in Ashes?WasHopingForAnHonestReview - Friday, August 3, 2018 - link
This concerns me. That alone is keeping me from buying one.