The ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Motherboard Review
by Gavin Bonshor on January 25, 2021 11:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- AMD
- Asus
- ROG
- AM4
- Ryzen 3000
- X570
- Strix X570-E
- Ryzen 5000
- X570-E Gaming
CPU Performance, Short Form
For our motherboard reviews, we use our short form testing method. These tests usually focus on if a motherboard is using MultiCore Turbo (the feature used to have maximum turbo on at all times, giving a frequency advantage), or if there are slight gains to be had from tweaking the firmware. We put the memory settings at the CPU manufacturers suggested frequency, making it very easy to see which motherboards have MCT enabled by default.
Rendering - Blender 2.79b: 3D Creation Suite - link
A high profile rendering tool, Blender is open-source allowing for massive amounts of configurability, and is used by a number of high-profile animation studios worldwide. The organization recently released a Blender benchmark package, a couple of weeks after we had narrowed our Blender test for our new suite, however their test can take over an hour. For our results, we run one of the sub-tests in that suite through the command line - a standard ‘bmw27’ scene in CPU only mode, and measure the time to complete the render.
Rendering – POV-Ray 3.7.1: Ray Tracing - link
The Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer, or POV-Ray, is a freeware package for as the name suggests, ray tracing. It is a pure renderer, rather than modeling software, but the latest beta version contains a handy benchmark for stressing all processing threads on a platform. We have been using this test in motherboard reviews to test memory stability at various CPU speeds to good effect – if it passes the test, the IMC in the CPU is stable for a given CPU speed. As a CPU test, it runs for approximately 1-2 minutes on high-end platforms.
Compression – WinRAR 5.60b3: link
Our WinRAR test from 2013 is updated to the latest version of WinRAR at the start of 2014. We compress a set of 2867 files across 320 folders totaling 1.52 GB in size – 95% of these files are small typical website files, and the rest (90% of the size) are small 30-second 720p videos.
Synthetic – 7-Zip v1805: link
Out of our compression/decompression tool tests, 7-zip is the most requested and comes with a built-in benchmark. For our test suite, we’ve pulled the latest version of the software and we run the benchmark from the command line, reporting the compression, decompression, and a combined score.
It is noted in this benchmark that the latest multi-die processors have very bi-modal performance between compression and decompression, performing well in one and badly in the other. There are also discussions around how the Windows Scheduler is implementing every thread. As we get more results, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Point Calculations – 3D Movement Algorithm Test: link
3DPM is a self-penned benchmark, taking basic 3D movement algorithms used in Brownian Motion simulations and testing them for speed. High floating point performance, MHz, and IPC win in the single thread version, whereas the multithread version has to handle the threads and loves more cores. For a brief explanation of the platform agnostic coding behind this benchmark, see my forum post here.
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vanish1 - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
Its the style that Asus uses now. My old P6X58D-E were different in their actuation and it wasnt even an afterthought releasing themTrapStoner - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
Your old x58? Lmao this is not 2008 no more, every board nowadays uses the same style locks. I have this board too and i can say that yes they are a bit annoying, but my asrock z97 board was absolutely the same so you just get used to it.vanish1 - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
yeah no shit its not 2008 anymore captain obvious, the point is if it aint broke dont fix it.putins_pinky - Thursday, January 28, 2021 - link
Looks like the heatsinks are in the way. My Prime X570-P has the same slot design and it's no problem.docofkult - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
I assume that Asus did not name the board x570 and then go for the B550 chipset. Check the specs overview ;)Slash3 - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
I liked the "thicker thins" on the VRM heatsink block.:P
Makaveli - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
"Some of its main features include Intel 2.5 GbE and Wi-Fi 6, with dual PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2, with plenty of USB 3.2 G2 connectivity."This board has Realtek 2.5 GbE not intel.
Jpeterson1 - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
It has both intel gigabyte, and realtek 2.5 gigabyte Ethernet. Just take a look at the back panel.Makaveli - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
I can see that on the back panel. However what I quoted doesn't imply that.MTEK - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
Nice board. I wanted to buy it in November along with an 5950X. However, the lack of availability and the China tariffs has been a mood killer. If the situation doesn't remedy itself by the end of Q2, I'll probably wait for this board's successor and Zen 4. Or rethink this expensive hobby.