Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro 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 Pro
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

We know that utilising the twelve core Ryzen 9 3900X is hardly the use for which the B550 was designed, but we thought that a lot of people might look at the savings on their motherboard and pass them on to the CPU. It also is a great way to test the power design of the B550 motherboards, one area that some manufacturers might attempt to cut costs. Clearly that claim cannot be aimed at Gigabyte who’ve banged out of the gate with both the Pro and Master easily able to get 4.4 GHz across the dozen cores of our test CPU.