Have you seen the B550 with 2000 yuan? Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER evaluation

When the X570 chipset first appeared in July last year, there was news that AMD would soon launch a mid-range B550 chipset to replace the previous generation B450 chipset. Unfortunately, it backfired. Until today, the B550 chipset a main board It was just officially launched, one year after the debut of the third generation of the Sharp Dragon and the X570. This time, we want to evaluate the B550 motherboard from the hardware giant Gigabyte: Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER It is a new product belonging to the high-end of Gigabyte, and it is the first time to see the AORUS MASTER series in the middle end B-series motherboards of Gigabyte. During the B450 motherboard period, the most high-end series of Gigabyte was just the AORUS PRO e-sports experts.

Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER

In order to facilitate your reading, the author first tells you the characteristics and precautions of Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER. Users interested in performance testing can continue to read.

Features: Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER is the flagship model of Gigabyte B550 motherboard, so the materials used are very hard. 16 phase digital power supply is used for power supply, which is more than most X570 motherboards. In order to ensure stable power supply, it also uses full coverage cooling armor, has WIFI 6 wireless network card, three M.2 interfaces supporting PCIe 4.0 technology, ALC1220 flagship audio chip and USB 3.2 Gen2 interface, together with the new BIOS design, have all kinds of Heike technologies.

Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER

Note: There is nothing wrong with the overall design of Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER. The only regret is that the price is far higher than the general B550 motherboard.

Buying suggestions: Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER sells for 2498 yuan, which is more expensive than an X570 motherboard, but the materials are also far better than the general X570 motherboard. You can even use it as a high-end X570. This motherboard has complete functions, and is suitable for users who need to build an all-purpose high-end platform without pursuing extreme overclocking.

01 Introduction of Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER

Although the AORUS MASTER E-sports Masters series is the flagship series this time, its appearance is as simple and unadorned as ever, and there are not many fancy light effects and colorful armor to display. Instead, it uses the classic black of E-sports to create the whole PCB body, and the South Bridge part is decorated with Gigabyte carved logo, giving people a sense of arrogance without anger.

Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER

Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER uses full coverage heat dissipation armor this time. In addition to the main heat source in the front, the back is also full of metal armor, which can effectively dissipate heat and reduce the heat dissipation pressure under high load.

Back heat dissipation armor

In the VRM cooling armor part above the power supply, the Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER uses stacked cooling fins, matched with direct contact heat pipes and 7.5 W/mK LAIRD heat conduction pads, which can effectively cope with the heat dissipation pressure brought by the high-end third-generation sharp dragon.

VRM thermal armor

Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER has prepared four memory sockets. After overclocking, the frequency can reach 5400MHz. All memory sockets are equipped with Gigabyte ultra durable metal protective armor, which can prevent the memory sockets from being damaged accidentally. This time, Gigabyte also uses a two-way buckle design to facilitate user installation.

Memory socket

In terms of graphics card slots, three PCIe x16 factory slots are provided. It should be noted that only the first slot equipped with Gigabyte's ultra durable metal protection armor is X16 mode, directly connected to the CPU, and the remaining two are X4 mode, which is converted by the chipset. So if you only use a unique user, please insert the graphics card into the slot with metal protection armor.

Graphics card slot

Around the graphics card slot are three M.2 slots that support PCIE 4.0 technology, all of which are directly connected to the CPU, and all are equipped with thermal armor. At the same time, Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER can support three NVMe solid state disks to build a RAID 0 disk array, which further improves the disk performance of the computer.

RAID 0 disk array

In the I/O part, Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER has very rich interfaces, with five USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A interfaces, one of which also supports Q- Flash Plus technology can avoid installing CPU, memory and graphics card to update BIOS. In addition, there are one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C interface, six USB 2.0 interfaces, one HDMI interface, one DP interface, one 2.5GB network interface and WIFI 6 antenna interface, and five conventional audio interfaces.

I/O interface

    In terms of detail design, Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER has also made great efforts to use 8+4pin CPU power supply interface and solid pin power supply socket design, which is more durable and will greatly increase its service life.

CPU power supply interface

In addition to the CPU power supply interface, the motherboard power supply interface of Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER has used the solid pin power supply socket design.

Mainboard power supply interface

02 Disassembly of Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER

Next, we will disassemble the Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER to see how the materials are used for this motherboard. Because full coverage armor is used, the disassembly is slightly laborious, but it can also be seen that the materials are sufficient.

Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER

Heat dissipating armor

In terms of power supply, Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER has made great efforts. The PWM controller uses the XDPE132G5C launched by Infineon last year, which can support the original 16 phase power supply. The MOSFET uses TD21472, which can output 70A current. This power supply scheme is quite powerful, even enough to defeat most of the X570 mainboards released last year.

XDPE132G5C

TD21472

The I/O monitoring chip is IT8688E.

IT8688E

The RGB chip uses IT8795E for control.

IT8795E

PCIe 4.0 uses PI3DBS 16412ZHE for control.

PI3DBS 16412ZHE

     The network card uses RTL8125BG to support 2.5Gb LAN.

RTL8125BG

The wireless network card is the WIFI 6 802.11ax network card. In the accessories, Gigabyte has also prepared an antenna to enhance the signal.

Antenna accessories

03 BIOS Introduction

The above disassembly and feature introduction let us see Gigabyte's full sincerity. The excellent materials and full design make this motherboard have no shortcomings in hardware, but this time, Gigabyte Software The following is a fully updated Chinese graphical BIOS interface.

main interface

Common interface

Advanced interface

Advanced interface

System interface

Startup interface

This time, the BIOS interface design of Gigabyte is quite mature. All functions and indicators of BIOS are clearly displayed, and the functions are very complete. You can easily realize CPU overclocking , memory XMP and other advanced settings. Compared with previous generations, Gigabyte BIOS design is very careful, and support for Chinese has also taken care of many new friends.

04 Performance test

Next, let's start the performance test. First, let's show you the test platform:

Test platform

PCIe 4.0 Test:

First, we tested PCIe 4.0, using the basic hard disk test software CrystalDiskMark.

PCIe 4.0 Testing

Thanks to the super high bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 on Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER, the solid state reading speed easily reached the threshold of nearly 5000MB/s, while the writing speed also reached 4233MB/s. The reading and writing speed of PCIe 3.0 is generally 3000MB/s. This generation of PCIe 4.0 technology has made great progress and can improve many efficiency.

CINEBENCH R20：

Next, let's take a look at the performance of CINEBENCH R20. CINEBENCH is a benchmark software recognized by the industry and can be seen in most system performance tests of mainstream media at home and abroad.

CINEBENCH R20

In the CINEBENCH R20 test, thanks to the support of Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER, AMD's 5 3600 points also played very well, whether it was a multi-core project or a single core project, which played its due standard.

Fritz Chess  Benchmark ：

Fritz Chess Benchmark is an old CPU test software, which tests the multithreaded large-scale scientific computing capability of the processor, and supports up to 16 threads.

Fritz Chess Benchmark：

Thanks to the excellent stability of Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER motherboard, AMD Reelong 5 3600 also played well in this test, with a score of 22751.

X264 test

Next, we begin to test the productivity. This time, we use the X264 test of video decoding class.

X264 test

There is no doubt that Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER motherboard can create a powerful content creation platform with the high-end third-generation Relong. Nowadays, content creation is also getting more and more attention and popularity. This motherboard will become a sharp weapon for you.

Game test:

Next, in the popular game test, we selected the Wild Escort 2《 Island Frightening 5 》And Tomb Raider: Shadow, the three A-rated masterpieces, and《 CS : GO This old FPS game, with a resolution of 2K, is tested with its own BENCHMARK.

Tomb Raider: Shadow

"Big Wild Escort 2"

Island Frightening 5

《CS:GO》

Facts have proved that Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER motherboard can also form a powerful game platform with high-end Reelung and high-end graphics cards. This motherboard can also become the core of the top game platform, can fully withstand the pressure of other hardware under high load, make the whole machine run stably, and provide better game frames.

Copying test:

We copy the AMD Reelong 5 3600 and use AIDA64 This software performs double copy of FPU and CPU to see if the Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER motherboard can withstand the pressure of this 95W TDP processor under high load.

Copying machine

Radiators We use air cooled radiators with 100 yuan double fans and 5 heat pipes. Even so, after an hour of copying test, the MOS tube temperature of Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER motherboard is only about 83 ℃, which is very healthy. In addition, there is no crash, green screen and other adverse reactions during copying, which is due to the powerful power supply and heat dissipation design of this motherboard, If you have the need for advanced operations such as overclocking, it is recommended that the radiator or water cooling be better.

05 Summary

In general, the Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER can meet the needs of all three generations of Reeves. Whether you want to build a game platform or a productivity platform, you can get an excellent experience, because the Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER has the functions of creating a 2.5 gigabit network environment and a WIFI 6 network card for e-sports, It also has an M.2 interface that supports PCIe 4.0 technology to further improve the efficiency of content creation. It can also ensure the stability of the whole machine through excellent heat dissipation and power supply design.

Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER

The motherboard of Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER shows us its sincerity, and its materials and details are very brilliant. For example, the original 16 phase power supply design of more than a large number of X570 motherboards is really amazing. There are also Gigabyte ultra durable metal protective armor in video cards, memory slots and other places. The backplane is full coverage thermal armor, which is heavy to pick up, It is also enough to prove its real talent.

The only thing that is true about Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER is its price. The price of 2498 yuan should persuade some users to quit. However, the materials used for this motherboard are also practical. If you want to be careful, the price is relatively reasonable. Many X570 mainboards at the same price have no more functions and materials than Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER. This is a "super outline" B550 motherboard, the user who has demand for its various functions will certainly win.

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