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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DigitalFreak - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
The M.2 slot furthest from the CPU is PCI-E 2.0 x4, not PCI-E 3.0.gavbon - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
Good spot, edited and thank you :)DigitalFreak - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
One other thing - the 3rd (x4) PCI-E slot is PCI-E 2.0, not 3.0.Hxx - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
Gigabyte's BIOS is like the quest to create as many submenus as possible and to bury things as deep as they can be buried within those menus. Luckily my Aorus z370 gaming 7 gets the job doneSpoelie - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
Another ATX board :/Wanted to upgrade to Ryzen 2 on an ITX board with a 4xx chipset for "proper" precision boost support - but am still waiting on availability of the damn things.
It's come to a point where I'm contemplating skipping this generation as well and wait for 7nm/Ryzen 3 in H1 next year - a "new" desktop nowadays is 5+ year investment anyway
tarqsharq - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
I've had my Asus X470 ITX board since the end of May or so?But yeah, waiting for the 7nm shrink might be a really good idea.
29a - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
I'm in the same boat as you Spoelie, I'm wanting to upgrade but I want a board with proper precision boast on a lower end chipset in a uATX or ITX form factor but AMD has been so slow about coming out with the new chipsets that now I'm to the point that I should probably wait for Zen2 and the new GPUs.DanNeely - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
I'm not sure which is stupider, the frag harder lights on 2 of the PCIe x16 slots, or that they cheaped out and left the 3rd normal.29a - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
Just don't turn them on and what seems to be a major source of stress in your life will go away.29a - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
Is it me or is this article hard to read? Here are some examples of strange sentences."While not a budget board in any sense of the phrase ($240), the selection of controllers highly the potential upturn in cost for the X470 Gaming 7. "
"While the X370 predecessor to this board (GIGABYTE AX370 Gaming K7) did feature a single U.2 port, GIGABYTE has omitted to implement one onto the X470 Gaming 7. Instead, two M.2 slots are present with both offering support for NVMe PCIe x4 and SATA SSDs with both slots featuring their own individual stylish and functional M.2 heat sinks."