The ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 7 Motherboard Review: Prepare for 9900KS
by Gavin Bonshor on October 4, 2019 9:00 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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justareader - Friday, October 4, 2019 - link
I just returned an Asrock Z390 Taichi because I could not get drivers to install without it locking up. Apparently it is an issue with the board. Simply luck of the draw. Went with the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra and all has been working great.sonny73n - Sunday, October 6, 2019 - link
Whatever Gigabyte shill... We can read the customer reviews of Gigabyte motherboards and move on to purchase another from a different brand.29a - Friday, October 4, 2019 - link
"While these comments make sense, ultimately very few users apply memory profiles (either XMP or other) as they require interaction with the BIOS, and most users will fall back on JEDEC supported speeds "Then why do overclocking tests since very few users ever enter the bios (your words not mine, I don't agree with this statement).
inighthawki - Friday, October 4, 2019 - link
I get the impression that the purpose of the overclocking portion of the review is more about stability and how high they can OC on the board, and not about doing performance benchmarking.As a result it seems like it would make sense to do performance benchmarking at stock speeds, but with a followup section that does cater to those few individuals to let them know "btw if you do do this, this is how well it works."
MDD1963 - Saturday, October 5, 2019 - link
'Prepare for 9900KS!!!!' Shows results of 2 year old 8700K..... :)MDD1963 - Saturday, October 5, 2019 - link
I'd have thought perhaps 9900K OC results might be *slightly* more relevant.... :)Surfacround - Sunday, October 6, 2019 - link
bingo!... we have a winner.Slash3 - Monday, October 7, 2019 - link
Thank you for deleting the spam comments! (Albeit, along with some others)Always frustrating to see them pop up.