Gigabyte Designaire X399 Motherboard Review

Peter Donnell / 7 years ago

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

In terms of gaming performance, Threadripper is not particularly the fastest, as it is designed to deal with multithreaded tasks more than anything. However, the Designaire delivered performance on par with other X399 motherboards. Overclocking did bring some small performance improvements, again in line with what we’ve seen on rival motherboards.

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Overclocked

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

Unigine is very much GPU bound, so there’s very little difference between motherboards and as you can see the Designaire is on par with just about everything else. Again though, it does show some small performance improvements once overclocked.

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Overclocked

PCMark 10 Express

The PCmark 10 Express score is respectable, but these huge core count CPUs just don’t seem too fair as well in this benchmark. It’s still a high score, but I do feel this benchmark is better tuned for consumer processors.

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Overclocked

WPrime 32M and 1024M

Now we can finally see a benchmark where Threadripper excels, as the X399 platform dominates the scores and the Designaire set a blazing time of 57.4 and 49.490 while overclocked, showing that there are plenty of gains to be had by pushing this motherboard and it’s processor to the limit.

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Overclocked

Cinebench R15

Again in Cinebench, which is able to use all of the cores of the processor to their full potential, the Designaire is up there with the fastest motherboards we have tested in this benchmark, all of which are X399.

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Overclocked

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

The Designaire set one of our highest ever scores for handbrake 4K video conversion, an amazing 73.5 frames per second. This is one of those benchmarks that does tend to drop down on the overclock settings, showing that the processor does thermal throttle once pushed for extended periods of time, but that’s still a respectable score overall and one that could quickly improve with the use of extreme cooling solutions.

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