Gigabyte X299X Aorus Xtreme Waterforce Review i9 10980XE

x265

It’s still scarcely believable that most of us carry in our pockets a HD video camera, but one only needs to glance at the amount of content available on the internet from simple cat videos through to incredibly complicated films to realise how important fast video encoding is and the x.265 benchmark does a good job of testing that.

At stock the Waterforce is significantly faster than the two ASUS offerings, but things tighten up to the point of barely being separated with the overclock in place.