The MSI MEG X570 Godlike Motherboard Review: Thor's Flagship
by Gavin Bonshor on August 28, 2019 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- AMD
- MSI
- 10G Ethernet
- Ryzen
- PCIe 4.0
- Ryzen 3000
- X570
- X570 Godlike
- MEG
Gaming Performance
For X570 we are running using Windows 10 64-bit with the 1903 update as per our Ryzen 3000 CPU review.
World of Tanks enCore
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for a new and unreleased graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine will implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine run optimally on their system.
Grand Theft Auto V
The highly anticipated iteration of the Grand Theft Auto franchise hit the shelves on April 14th 2015, with both AMD and NVIDIA in tow to help optimize the title. GTA doesn’t provide graphical presets, but opens up the options to users and extends the boundaries by pushing even the hardest systems to the limit using Rockstar’s Advanced Game Engine under DirectX 11. Whether the user is flying high in the mountains with long draw distances or dealing with assorted trash in the city, when cranked up to maximum it creates stunning visuals but hard work for both the CPU and the GPU.
For our test we have scripted a version of the in-game benchmark. The in-game benchmark consists of five scenarios: four short panning shots with varying lighting and weather effects, and a fifth action sequence that lasts around 90 seconds. We use only the final part of the benchmark, which combines a flight scene in a jet followed by an inner city drive-by through several intersections followed by ramming a tanker that explodes, causing other cars to explode as well. This is a mix of distance rendering followed by a detailed near-rendering action sequence, and the title thankfully spits out frame time data.
F1 2018
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1. Graphically demanding in its own right, F1 2018 keeps a useful racing-type graphics workload in our benchmarks.
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained. We use the in-game benchmark, set to run on the Montreal track in the wet, driving as Lewis Hamilton from last place on the grid. Data is taken over a one-lap race.
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oynaz - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link
I actually prefer more cores to faster cores in my DAW. Each effect bus, or track, cannot be split into multiple cores, true, but you usually quite a few buses going.inighthawki - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link
GamingSweetbabyjays - Thursday, August 29, 2019 - link
In a professional setting, where you are doing thread intensive workloads, and IT is not cool with you overclocking...then yes, I totally agree 3900x makes way more sense."use less power overall" ? 9900k has a TDP of 95W, while the 3900x has a TDP of 105W, Additionally the Z390 chipset has a TDP of 6W while the X570 has a TDP of 11W. Now I know there is a discrepancy between how AMD and Intel measure TDP, so the numbers at face value may not be telling the whole story. That said, I would be very interested to see overall system power draw for both to test the veracity of your statement.
AshlayW - Thursday, August 29, 2019 - link
Oh boy, you actually think the 9900K uses 95W? Joke's on you pal, that's at 3.6 GHz. At full turbo clocks the 9900K uses 150-200W. Ryzen 3000 is almost twice the performance per watt in some scenarios.Trikkiedikkie - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link
With the 3900 having many things inside the processor, whereas the 9900 has extra chips needed. And Intel's numbers only count for baseclockSweetbabyjays - Thursday, August 29, 2019 - link
"trounce it with it's higher core-count parts in multi-threaded scenarios." Aside from some synthetic benchmarks, I suggest looking at the puget systems website for professional benchmarks, if you're looking for more real world professional performance scenarios.The 12 core part is better in some(in some the 9900k is better) scenarios, but rarely(if ever) by more than 10%. Perhaps your definition of "trounce" is different from mine thought.
If you're gaming much more often than you are working/creating the increased core count really wont improve your overall computing experience, if at all.
Oliseo - Thursday, August 29, 2019 - link
This is true. But the argument remains, just how many people actually use highly mutli-threaded scenarios.I'd wager if you got a venn diagram of gamers and content creators, the content creators would simply be a small spot on the very large gaming circle.
I know a lot of gamers, yet I struggle to meet 3D cad designers or Film Editors.
So yes, you're right, AMD will trounce Intel in that respect. But until we get games using more than 8 cores, the majority of people will not be better off because they simply don't need those extra cores as they don't run any software that can make use of them.
And that goes for AMD folks wanting to get the AMD chips as well.
Trikkiedikkie - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link
Gaming is soo small compared to people doing actual work.AshlayW - Thursday, August 29, 2019 - link
$150 more, for 10% higher single core performance when both CPUs already have extremely good single core performance, and you can place a 4700X in the same motherboard next year that will have even higher single core than the 9900K? Seriously people, consumer stupidity is why Intel is still selling CPUs.Trikkiedikkie - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link
Single core is soooo last century.Only people that have very little serious work apart from Adobe want that.