The ASUS X99 Rampage V Extreme ROG Review
by Ian Cutress on June 22, 2015 8:45 AM EST- Posted in
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- Haswell-E
- X99
Gaming Performance 2015
As we have not tested our mid-2015 suite on many products yet, we have relatively few results and these are included here for completeness. I've included a few CPU based results as well, to see perspective.
Alien: Isolation
If first person survival mixed with horror is your sort of thing, then Alien: Isolation, based off of the Alien franchise, should be an interesting title. Developed by The Creative Assembly and released in October 2014, Alien: Isolation has won numerous awards from Game Of The Year to several top 10s/25s and Best Horror titles, ratcheting up over a million sales by February 2015. Alien: Isolation uses a custom built engine which includes dynamic sound effects and should be fully multi-core enabled.
For low end graphics, we test at 720p with Ultra settings, whereas for mid and high range graphics we bump this up to 1080p, taking the average frame rate as our marker with a scripted version of the built-in benchmark.
Total War: Attila
The Total War franchise moves on to Attila, another The Creative Assembly development, and is a stand-alone strategy title set in 395AD where the main story line lets the gamer take control of the leader of the Huns in order to conquer parts of the world. Graphically the game can render hundreds/thousands of units on screen at once, all with their individual actions and can put some of the big cards to task.
For low end graphics, we test at 720p with performance settings, recording the average frame rate. With mid and high range graphics, we test at 1080p with the quality setting. In both circumstances, unlimited video memory is enabled and the in-game scripted benchmark is used.
GRID: Autosport
No graphics tests are complete without some input from Codemasters and the EGO engine, which means for this round of testing we point towards GRID: Autosport, the next iteration in the GRID and racing genre. As with our previous racing testing, each update to the engine aims to add in effects, reflections, detail and realism, with Codemasters making ‘authenticity’ a main focal point for this version.
GRID’s benchmark mode is very flexible, and as a result we created a test race using a shortened version of the Red Bull Ring with twelve cars doing two laps. The car is focus starts last and is quite fast, but usually finishes second or third. For low end graphics we test at 1080p medium settings, whereas mid and high end graphics get the full 1080p maximum. Both the average and minimum frame rates are recorded.
![GRID: Autosport on ASUS R7 240 DDR3 2GB ($70) [Minimum FPS]](https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph9278/75186.png)
![GRID: Autosport on ASUS GTX 980 Strix 4GB ($560) [Minimum FPS]](https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph9278/75204.png)
Middle-Earth: Shadows of Mordor
The final title in our testing is another battle of system performance with the open world action-adventure title, Shadows of Mordor. Produced by Monolith using the LithTech Jupiter EX engine and numerous detail add-ons, SoM goes for detail and complexity to a large extent, despite having to be cut down from the original plans. The main story itself was written by the same writer as Red Dead Redemption, and it received Zero Punctuation’s Game of The Year in 2014.
For testing purposes, SoM gives a dynamic screen resolution setting, allowing us to render at high resolutions that are then scaled down to the monitor. As a result, we get several tests using the in-game benchmark. For low end graphics we examine at 720p with low settings, whereas mid and high end graphics get 1080p Ultra. The top graphics test is also redone at 3840x2160, also with Ultra settings, and we also test two cards at 4K where possible.
![Shadows of Mordor on ASUS R7 240 DDR3 2GB ($70) [Minimum FPS]](https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph9278/75188.png)
![Shadows of Mordor on ASUS GTX 980 Strix 4GB ($560) [Minimum FPS]](https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph9278/75208.png)
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DanNeely - Monday, June 22, 2015 - link
It *IS* a standard though. The common layout you see in 99% of mobos is the one from an ATX spec from many years ago.marraco - Monday, June 22, 2015 - link
What about wifi tests?Most wifi routers reviews never care about different routers performing different with various clients, like USB dongles, integrated wifi, etc.
So, it is very important to know the performance of integrated WIFI, vs USB dongle, versus other solutions.
DanNeely - Monday, June 22, 2015 - link
IIRC where Ian lives is so built up and has so many networks fighting for limited spectrum that all you'd see is a universal faceplant if he tried to do wifi testing.arneberg - Monday, June 22, 2015 - link
Nice motherboard but i miss pci-e lanes, 2 pci-e are to little (in full x16 speed) And there should be 2 M.2 pci-e v3 x4 ports and where is the 8636 ports? otherwise a beutiful card have the x79 version myself. Ihope they come out with a updated board a x99 black maybe? I have used asus mainboards för maybe 20 years now and been wery satisfied with them but for x99 i have a asrock becouse of better features. if i could choice i rather have a asus board.arneberg - Monday, June 22, 2015 - link
Sorry for the bad english in my last post !I hope some motherboard manufacturer have the guts to take away sata express (to slow anyway for the fastest ssd ) and most of the sata ports (we may need them, now but in a few year who need it i use 1 for storing games on a ssd, the system is on a nvme disk (pci-e), and have the new 8639 ports instead. More M.2 pci-e v3 x4 ports and chip to double up the pci-e lines. then i would buy the motherboard.
aron9621 - Monday, June 22, 2015 - link
"With 40 PCIe lane CPUs, the processor supplies x16/x8/x16/- in tri-GPU mode..."The Rampage V can only handle 16x/8x/8x for three cards. The X99 Deluxe is more flexible in this regard.
B3an - Monday, June 22, 2015 - link
Couple of questions... If i had dual GPU's, and a x4 PCIe SSD (Samsung SM951) would both GPU's still run at x16?And can the SM951 be booted from on this mobo? So that an OS can be installed on it.
aron9621 - Monday, June 22, 2015 - link
That I would like to know as well. According to the manual, when you have 2x 16x cards in your system you can't use the other PCIE3.0 slots (you can, but your second card switches to 8x mode). On top of that, putting anything into the bottom slot disables the M2 slot, so it's either M2 or the last slot. It's kind of brain dead, considering how they designed the X99 Deluxe. Using the M2 slot there switches the last slot to 4x 3.0 mode, so you can use both. It also allows a 16x/16x/8x configuration (and I think it can handle 16x/16x/4x and a full speed 4x M2 slot). Of course the slot spacing on that board is less optimal than on the Rampage V, but at least it allows using a large Noctua cooler without blocking the first slot. On the other hand, running the graphic card in 8x mode doesn't hammer performance much (if at all), but still.... I wish they released a Rampage V Black Edition capable of 16x/16x/8x or 16/16/4 + the M2 slot in 4x mode.B3an - Monday, June 22, 2015 - link
It's so retarded if i can't run two GPU's at x16 with a x4 PCIe SSD attached. This is meant to be their best mobo.I wonder if the Fury X will have much of a performance hit running at x8...
ChronoBodi - Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - link
Late response and first time post here:I have two r9 290X 8GB in crossfire taking up their designated slots, and an Intel 750 SSD 1.2 TB PCI-E SSD in the 4th red slot, AND an m.2 Samsung XP941, all of them running fine at the same time.
I think it should be 16x for both GPUs and the remaining 8 lanes split into 2 sets of 4 lanes for both PCI-E SSDs.
I have to check GPU-Z later to confirm the GPUs.