AORUS X470 Gaming 7 WiFi Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

The new X470 chipset is a nice improvement over X370 with some cool new features, and of course, the new Ryzen 7 2700X helps give it a significant boost in performance over the last generation also. The Gaming 7 scored 20889 in 3D Mark, putting it between both the Taichi X470 and the ASUS F Gaming X470 motherboards. The Unigine score was pretty good too, scoring 5531, which is right on the money for this GPU bound task. Interestingly, the PCMark 10 scores on X470 are all pretty much identical, with the Gaming 7 scoring a respectable 5258.

In WPrime 1024, the Gaming 7 scored well with 96.554 seconds, putting it almost 2 seconds ahead of the Taichi X470. It also pushed ahead of the Taichi in Chinebench, scoring an impressive 1800 points, although that is behind the ASUS F Gaming which hit a more impressive 1862, although all beat out their Z370 based competitors.

Overclocking saw some significant gains all round though, with the 3DMark score boosting 163 points to 21052, while Unigine increased to 5534; that’s one of our highest scores to date. PCMark 10 improved too, hitting 5346, putting it ahead of the other X470 motherboards, albeit only by a couple of points.

However, it’s the more demanding benchmarks that impressed the most. WPrime times dropped to around 91 seconds on all X470 motherboards, which is super quick. However, the Gaming 7 scored a mighty 1908 in Cinebench, giving it a noticeable lead over its X470 rivals. Finally, the handbrake score took a boost to just under 63 FPS. That’s a swift time and actually on par with what we got from Threadripper!

3DMark Firestrike

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Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

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PCMark 10 Express

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WPrime 32M and 1024M

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Cinebench R15

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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

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