On The Wings of an Eagle: GIGABYTE's X570 I Aorus Pro WIFI Motherboard Tested
by Gavin Bonshor on March 19, 2020 10:00 AM ESTGaming Performance
For X570 we are running using Windows 10 64-bit with the 1903 update as per our Ryzen 3000 CPU review.
World of Tanks enCore
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for a new and unreleased graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine will implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine run optimally on their system.
Grand Theft Auto V
The highly anticipated iteration of the Grand Theft Auto franchise hit the shelves on April 14th 2015, with both AMD and NVIDIA in tow to help optimize the title. GTA doesn’t provide graphical presets, but opens up the options to users and extends the boundaries by pushing even the hardest systems to the limit using Rockstar’s Advanced Game Engine under DirectX 11. Whether the user is flying high in the mountains with long draw distances or dealing with assorted trash in the city, when cranked up to maximum it creates stunning visuals but hard work for both the CPU and the GPU.
For our test we have scripted a version of the in-game benchmark. The in-game benchmark consists of five scenarios: four short panning shots with varying lighting and weather effects, and a fifth action sequence that lasts around 90 seconds. We use only the final part of the benchmark, which combines a flight scene in a jet followed by an inner city drive-by through several intersections followed by ramming a tanker that explodes, causing other cars to explode as well. This is a mix of distance rendering followed by a detailed near-rendering action sequence, and the title thankfully spits out frame time data.
F1 2018
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1. Graphically demanding in its own right, F1 2018 keeps a useful racing-type graphics workload in our benchmarks.
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained. We use the in-game benchmark, set to run on the Montreal track in the wet, driving as Lewis Hamilton from last place on the grid. Data is taken over a one-lap race.
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InTheMidstOfTheInBeforeCrowd - Friday, March 20, 2020 - link
Hahaha, LOL... and respect, quite impressive. Makes me remember the old "Into the Shadows" demo from Triton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSRGLapSx3w).umano - Friday, March 20, 2020 - link
I really hope next x670 boards will support 2 m2 pcie at full speed, thunderbolt and 10gbe, at least on dtx size. I know I am dreaming but this is what I would really buyDug - Friday, March 20, 2020 - link
I wish you would test the parts of the motherboard that count, like networking, usb, sound, storage. Common Anantech. Get back to good reviews.It's getting old testing the same benchmarks that don't make any difference to users as they are all within a small percentage of each other.
qit - Saturday, March 21, 2020 - link
"same power stages that the flagship GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Xtreme is using, albeit in a smaller package with fewer phases."Does a power delivery stage with significant less phases (6 vs 16) actually qualify as "the same"?
Or is this more like a way of writing that wouldn't have appeared on anandtech years ago?
HardwareDufus - Saturday, March 28, 2020 - link
This looks like it could be my next motherboard. Would like it if it had optical audio (SPDIF), but that's okay.HardwareDufus - Saturday, March 28, 2020 - link
Dual M.2 and Dual HDMI is a very thoughful combination! So many folks like two harddrives and use two monitors...MetaCube - Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - link
Dual M.2 are quite popular, but that would be great if MB manufacturers could fuck off with video outputs.Qasar - Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - link
only way for that to happen, is if amd/intel made 2 product lines, cpu and motherboard, from top to bottom.watzupken - Monday, March 30, 2020 - link
I was considering getting this board together to be used with the 4xxx series APU later in the year, while using it with a 3400G. However one thing that I don't like is the sharing of the heatsink between the NVME drive and chipset. I guess there is very limited space to separate these 2, but I don't think its an ideal solution. I read on Amazon reviews that the SSD temps get quite high as a result. And yeah, not too thrilled with the idea of active cooling on the motherboard since it can be another point of failure.ForNein - Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - link
I'm confused.There is a complaint on page two about the lack of an M2 thermal pad on the chipset heatsink and then in the final picture and description you mention the inclusion of an M2 thermal pad.