Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master Review

Test Setup

As well as the B550 motherboards we’re also including our X570 motherboards in our graphs today, just to demonstrate how little the ‘lesser’ AMD Chipset is giving up compared to its bigger brother. Perfect if you’re on a tight budget.

Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
G.Skill Trident Z 3600 MHz
Corsair Vengeance RGB 4600 MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2 – OS Drive
Aorus PCIE4 NVME – Storage Speed Tests
Nvidia RTX 2080Ti
Corsair HX1000i
Corsair H150i
Corsair ML Fans

Overclocking

The Ryzen 9 3900X is probably at the upper limit of what people will use on a B550 motherboard, but we had no doubt that the manufacturers would take into account the high core counts of the 3rd Gen Ryzen CPUs. Certainly the Aorus Master has no problems with our 3900X, pushing 4.4 GHz across all the cores. As you’ll see in a moment, this has a profound effect upon the performance.