The much anticipated X670 chipset and Ryzen 7000 series processors from AMD fans are now on sale! This time, AMD not only introduced DDR5 memory for the first time, but also included the latest PCIe 5.0 specification and added the AMD EXPO memory profile to make it easier to overclock your computer system! Of course GIGABYTE has also come up with a lot of “dishes” that DIY computer gamers can choose from. For example, the X670 GAMING X AX motherboard, which has to be evaluated outside the box in this article, is a fighting type. with a high C / P value. It is ported under the ATX architecture. Rich expandability, 16 + 2 + 2 phase digital power supply allows everyone to use it with peace of mind and equipped with 2.5G network card and 6E wireless Wi-Fi, playing games is guaranteed not to lag!
AM5 foot design with AMD socket: support for AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors Unmatched performance: 16 + 2 + 2 phase DDR5 dual channel connected digital power solution: 4 memory sockets with SMD architecture, support for AMD EXPO memory and Intel XMP The next generation storage configuration of the body module: 1 set of PCIe 5.0 x4 and 3 sets of PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slots, enlarged heat pipe and M.2 thermal protection: improved VRM power supply stability and performance SSD 25110 PCIe 5.0 M.2 EZ -Latch: PCIe x16 and M.2 slots with screwless quick release design Upcoming GIGABYTE USB4 expansion card Exclusive Smart Fan 6 technology: Built-in multi-point temperature measurement function and Q-Flash Plus technology with composite fan header design, it can update the BIOS without installing the processor, memory and graphics card
Unboxing the GIGABYTE X670 GAMING X AX motherboard
The front of the box indicates that it supports AMD Socket AM% processors, supports PCIe 5.0 technology with NVMe, supports DDR5 memory, and provides 2.5GbE wired network
The back of the color box shows the four main features of this motherboard; such as 16 + 2 + 2 connected digital power supply design, built-in Wi-Fi 6E wireless network card
The ATX architecture is rich in scalability and has a perfect heat dissipation design!
For detailed expansion specifications, you can refer to the figure above
motherboard side
The motherboard is equipped with an aluminum I / O cover; here you can see that the rear I / O has a useful Q-Flash Plus BIOS firmware update function, two Wi-Fi 6E antenna sockets, HDMI (supports HDMI 2.1 and HDCP 2.3; resolution up to 4096 × 2160a 60Hz), 4 USB 2.0 / 1.1 ports, 6 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, 2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports (red), 1 USB Type-C / USB 3.2 Gen 2 × 2, 1 RJ-45 port 2.5 GbE and three sets of analog audio jacks
Design of digital power supplies with 16 + 2 + 2 phase connection
The motherboard is designed with a 6-layer dual copper printed circuit board, optimized for PCIe 5.0 circuitry and equipped with a 70A power stage, with a full coverage MOSFET transistor heatsink plus an enlarged heat pipe of 8mm diameter and 7W / mk Thermal Pad, gamers can use this motherboard with peace of mind!
AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors that support AM5 support
Solid 8 + 8 pin power connector
A new generation of PCIe 5.0 slots, one set of PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 slots and three sets of PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slots, complemented by heat dissipation armor, the design is domineering! One of them is equipped of PCIe 4.0 x16 graphics card slots with ultra-strong metal armor
Configured with four sets of DIMMs, supports dual channel DDR5 memory, 24-pin ATX power connector. Overclockers can use the multi-function key design to control specific functions in the BIOS, including system reboot / RGB lighting switching / one-key pass-through to BIOS / boot. There is a front USB 3.2 Gen 2 × 2 output design at the bottom left of the image.
The motherboard supports 2/4 / 5.1 / 7.1 channels and carefully selected Japanese nichicon capacitors with good sound
performance test
test platform:
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7950X Motherboard: Gigabyte X670 GAMING X AX Motherboard Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Memory: Team Group T-FORCE VULCANα 16GBx2 DDR5 Boot Disk: Seagate FireCuda 520 M.2 PCIe Gen 4 × 4 NVMe SSD Processor Cooling System: ROG Strix Water Cooling System Power: ASUS Strix 1000W Operating System: WINDOWS 11 Home Edition
It can be seen that the system is configured with a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processor with 32GB of memory
View processor information with Z CPU, you can see detailed information of AMD processor; for example, the codename is Raphael, the maximum TDP is 170W, the process is 5nm, 16 cores / 32 threads, and the L3 cache is 32MB
CPU-Z scores are high! The single-threaded score is 766.9 and the multi-threaded score is 15050.9! Comparing the previous generation flagship of the competition (13th Gen Intel Core benchmark score was not raised) i9-12900K, single thread 847.3 and multi thread 11710, the advantage of 32 threads is evident (i9-12900K is 24 threads )!
Turn on the memory to increase the EXPO score! And the stability I think is better than Intel XMP!
Running the CPU profile score, the maximum thread score (32) reaches 16281 and the single thread has 1105
Cinebench R20 score without EXPO is 764 points for single-core and 769 points for multi-core (i9-12900k score is 786 points for single-core and 10472 points for multi-core)
Open EXPO’s Cinebench R20 score and the multi-core part is slightly improved!
Open EXPO Cinebench R23 Score
CROSSMARK test, get a high score of 2161!
Complementing the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4090 GAMING OC 24G graphics card, the performance information of the graphics card in the same platform is as follows
First of all, let’s take a look at the Time Spy Extreme score, which is a skyrocketing 17908 !!
Take the Fire Strike Ultra test score and reach a super high score of 25113! !
So, let’s take a look at the light tracking performance, run the Port Royal benchmark test, and hit a super high score of 25737!
While there is no DLSS 3 test in 3DMark, let’s take a look at the DLSS 2 part first; in the DLSS test, when DLSS 2 is on, you can see that there is 241.97 FPS, which is really quite fast! !
We run DirectX Raycing, the average frame rate is 140.01 FPS
SPEED WAY is 3DMARK’s new benchmarking software, which has a significant amount of rendering operations; the graphics card benchmark score on this platform is 9938!
Let’s take a look at the results of the rendering pipeline! Even in the Mesh Shader test the results are amazing!
Finally, I used FF XV Bench as a benchmark for gaming performance and got a high score of 23381. When I looked at the benchmarking screen, I was also very impressed. The original screen could be better. Looks like I’ll be using that graphics card later. Have fun with FF XV!
The overall performance was tested by PCMARK10 and achieved a super high score of 9593!
Use the experience summary
Overall, this Gigabyte motherboard is very easy to use in both BIOS setup interface and installation part, and normal installation can be done in one go. Compared to other brands, I encountered compatibility issues during the testing process, which can be said to be much more reassuring. On the expansion interface, this motherboard is also quite abundant.In addition to being suitable for gamers, the creator is also very OK!
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