Tiny at $200: ASUS Z390-I Gaming vs. ASRock Z390 Gaming-ITX/ac Review
by Gavin Bonshor on February 12, 2019 10:00 AM ESTGaming Performance
AoTS Escalation
Ashes of the Singularity is a Real-Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any systematic differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system don't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph.
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.
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JlHADJOE - Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - link
Separate companies, but essentially the same owners. Look at the directors of Pegatron and it's full of people who hold similar positions at ASUS.Pegatron's president and CEO, https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/p...">Syh-Jang Liao for example also sits on the board of ASUSPower Corporate and ASUSPower Investment.
Pegatron's Chairman and Group CEO, https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/p...">T.H. Tung likewise chairs ASUS Investment and ASUSTek investment.
You can do this with all of the officers and board members in https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/...">Pegatron and you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who isn't also at ASUS. Basically Pegatron and ASRock were "spun off" so that their friends could put money in it, but the original ASUS people are all still there running the show.
JlHADJOE - Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - link
Comments section didn't like BBcode so clean links here:Syh-Jang Liao: https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/p...
T.H. Tung: https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/p...
Pegatron: https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/...
stuhad - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
Full bandwidth on the Thunderbolt connection?u.of.ipod - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
looks like the 'final words' section is missingsecretanchitman - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
I have the Asrock board and it's been damn solid - fully recommend it!romrunning - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
The main feature chart for the ASRock shows the Thunderbolt 3 USB-C port next to "USB 3.1 (10 Gbps)"; however, that seems to be doing it a disservice as TB3 can go up to 40GBps, not just 10.Does this mean that the TB3 port is limited to 10Gbps somehow? Or is it only meant to say that the TB3 port can fall back to USB 3.1G2 mode?
Or is it just stuffing data into a cell when another row should/could have been added?
eva02langley - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
Really expensive for a mini-itx board. I got mine for 130$, but it is a B450, but the features are similar.crotach - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - link
I got a Yugo for a much lower price than a Ferrari, but the features are similar.Nutty667 - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - link
I'm amazed there's upto 5fps difference at 4K in ROTTR with the same gpu/cpu combo. Surely that should be purely GPU workload there. Can anyone explain the difference ?zodiacfml - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - link
Impressive but Intel is lagging for at least several months. i'd be looking at AMD systems until Intel gets their thing in 1st half of 2020.