Gaming 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.

GTX 980: World of Tanks enCore, Average FPSGTX 980: World of Tanks enCore, 95th Percentile

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.

GTX 980: Grand Theft Auto V, Average FPSGTX 980: Grand Theft Auto V, 95th Percentile

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.

GTX 980: F1 2018, Average FPS

GTX 980: F1 2018, 95th Percentile

CPU Performance, Short Form Ryzen 3000 Overclocking
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  • Irata - Friday, July 19, 2019 - link

    +1

    I would really like to see the USB performance (also CPU connected USB ports vs. chipset connected ones), the sound quality, network performance.

    But overall this is already imho a good review, but it would be better with more tests.
  • FreihEitner - Thursday, July 18, 2019 - link

    It's a crying shame that X470 and X570 only rarely make it to mATX boards. At last count (that I've seen) there are more micronic mITX boards sporting X570 than there are reasonably sized mATX boards sporting X570. I think I've still only ever seen maybe 2 mATX X470 boards as well.

    Yes my mATX case CAN take an mITX board, but I actually use the second PCIe slot.
  • Death666Angel - Friday, July 19, 2019 - link

    I've only seen one X470 mATX board from AsRack server. But unless you have some interesting PCIe card needs, I doubt 250€ makes much sense for it. :D What was the other one you saw?
    I'm also a die hard mATX defender, but from what I heard (Buildzoid) it doesn't sell well an manufacturers are not devoting a lot of RnD to it. I think there were a few mATX X570 announced way back when (or leaked) but so far only AsRock has delivered. B550 might come to the rescue, but I wanted a new system now (Haswell is getting long in the tooth), so I just got the MSI Mortar and am happy.
  • br83taylor - Thursday, July 18, 2019 - link

    lack of SATA ports means this motherboard is DOA. What were they thinking....
  • notashill - Thursday, July 18, 2019 - link

    They were probably thinking that people who use more than 4 SATA+3 NVMe drives are an incredibly tiny niche not worth catering to with this specific board.
  • FreckledTrout - Thursday, July 18, 2019 - link

    I'm pretty sure 3 NVMe drives plus 4 SATA drives satisfies a vast majority of use cases for this type of motherboard.
  • DanNeely - Friday, July 19, 2019 - link

    The chipset IO lanes that could have powered 4 more sata ports would end up being shared with either the 3rd m.2 slot or the 3rd PCIe slot and that the cost of support tickets from people who got confused about using feature A disables feature B is higher than profit from the handful of people trying to use a near flagship level consumer motherboard to build a storage server.
  • pavag - Saturday, July 20, 2019 - link

    I have a large collection of SATA drives which I want to keep running. Each time I replaced one HDD with SSD, I moved the disk to my desktop, so I care a lot for the quantity of SATA ports.
  • Qasar - Friday, July 19, 2019 - link

    um.. is everyone that is complaining about the prices of X570 boards, aware that there could be a B570 chipset still yet to come to target the lower price points of boards ? or has AMD stated that X570 is the only chipset for zen 2 ?
  • haukionkannel - Friday, July 19, 2019 - link

    Yes 550 is coming next year!
    But most b450 boards Are just fine for ryzen3000. Just check out the vrm and you will be fine.

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