Conclusion

Final Words 

Little is wrong with the Aorus Master. The initial chipset fan issue has been fixed with the latest firmware. So other than the high price for X570 overall, it's just a matter of features and aesthetics you need to like in your choice of motherboard. This board is a freaking € 399,- with only slightly ower prices in USD, I kid you not. As to why the price needs to be this exorbitant, we have no idea. Sure it has Multi-GigE (2.5 Gigabit but not 10 Gigabit). Then an extra Gigabit jack as well as the AX WIFI implementation. That 2.5 Gigabit jack does it all really nicely in the 300 MB/sec ranges. What the industry now needs are affordable Multi-GigE switches so that your home LAN infrastructure finally is getting faster.  

Gaming performance on Ryzen 3000

Previous Ryzen reviews have taught me that it is extremely hard to convince a big part of the guru3d community and reader base that Ryzen 1000/2000 was plenty fast for gaming, at least mainstream gaming. For the new Zen2 Matisse based processors that will be less difficult. Combined with the respective platform, ZEN2 offers far more oomph compared to the previous two generation Ryzen processors. There are mostly wins for Intel, there will be wins for AMD based on competing and price level matched processors. It's a much closer call to make, and that by itself is a win for AMD all thanks to the increased IPC and clock frequencies. We do feel that the gaming performance charts were a bit out of perspective, so I created another 1920x1080 chart showing all games we tested against the Core i9 9900K. This is the reality with the fastest consumer GPU available on the planet:

I'll keep showing this chart in our X570 motherboard review just to make the point. So based on the fastest consumer card on the globe,  GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, we can calculate and average out roughly a 5% to 10% advantage for the 9900K compared to the 3900X and 3700X overall. With varying differences per game title, of course. Guys, this is how close things have gotten in the year 2019 with Ryzen 3000. And we did pick Intel's most expensive 8-core proc here and, again, who really owns an RTX 2080 Ti? All slower cards are more GPU limited and thus the performance differences are narrower.

DDR4 Memory

Memory compatibility should not and likely will not be an issue as long as you stick to recently released DIMMs. I'll keep repeating this, but there are some really good Ryzen optimized kits out there. With Ryzen Generation 3 you can go higher in DDR4 clock frequency if you want to. We advise that up-to 3600 MHz and CL16 is fine, after that frequency value a 2:1 divider kicks in, and that can have an effect on the Infinity Fabric bandwidth, inter-core CCX bandwidth. We see no reason for faster DDR4 memory anyways, it's expensive and does not bring in added perf, much like what you see on Intel platforms as well. So my advice is a minimum 3200 MHz frequency for the memory, CL14 would be awesome of course especially since DDR4 prices have been on the decline for a year now.

Energy efficiency

With these processors now fabbed at 7nm you may see some interesting energy efficiency, the 65 Watts for the 3700X is, of course, amazing all by itself. The 12 core 3900X, however, is listed at a TDP of 105 Watts. Mind you these are numbers at nominal load. Not your continuous power draw. Overall the 3700X was idling a bit higher than expected, but that is likely due to the massively outfitted motherboard (extra ICs do use extra power). The load values are excellent. The 3900X did show roughly the same idle load, ergo read my previous statement on the motherboard. The load values with 12 cores stressed topped 227 Watts (entire PC), which was just 20 Watts more than a stressed 9900K. So yeah, it's all good there. 

The conclusion

The X570 Aorus Master offers good connectivity and features you need. Other than that you get it all from proper M.2 performance, dual multi-GPU slots, six SATA3 slots, all the USB connectivity you need and overall a lovely looking product. The big plus, of course, is the PCIe Gen 4.0 infrastructure the X570 platform with Ryzen 3000 offers. It does open up a plethora of faster storage options. The question is, does that warrant the 399 EUR and 359 USD price tag? I honestly don't think so unless you really want PCIe 4.0 on that chipset. Personally, I would settle with a fast PCIe Gen 3.0 storage unit, so X470 is fine as well. Make no mistake, Gigabyte has an appealing offering with this X570 series motherboard with an overall solid design. The DDR4 memory worked straight out of the box, we enabled the 3600 MHz XMP and as well as 3200 MHz G.Skill memory used immediately kicked in. Tweaking wise, the motherboards will not be any limitation, the processors however are. We have no reason to not like the Aorus Master for its hardware, however, the pricing is so off that we'll leave out an award as you can achieve pretty much the same with a 200 USD X470 board. A board like this should be 269 USD, period.

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