B550 motherboard chipset is currently AMD for mainstream public users products, thanks to the B550 motherboard chipset fully support PCIe4.0 technology, the emerging PCIe4.0 specificationS M.2 SSD SSD is therefore compatible, users can also get a higher speed data transmission experience. At the same time, the price area of the B550 series motherboard covers a wide range, which has a very high cost performance ratio for AMD platform users.
GIGABYTE AORUS is a high-end esports hardware sub-brand launched by GIGABYTE specifically for the game/e-sports player group, and is also jokingly called a carving brand by players due to the similar design of the logo of the series brand. AORUS has a rich product line, and the motherboard is also one of its core series. In the second half of 2021, AORUS introduced another new member in its B550 motherboard family, the B550M AORUS PRO-P, a small but feature-rich B550 motherboard.
GIGABYTE EAGLE PRO-P B550M AORUS PRO-P Motherboard Product Appreciation
GIGABYTE Eagle PRO-P B550M AORUS PRO-P (hereinafter referred to as: GIGABYTE Eagle PRO-P B550M) motherboard look at the naming method of the model to see that this is an improved motherboard, which should be based on the B550M AORUS PRO motherboard design or specification improvement of derivative motherboard products. At the same time, the pricing of the product is not expensive, and the pricing route of the product is also the main cost performance, but in terms of packaging design, it is still a very intimate continuation of the product style of AORUS as a game series brand.
Gigabyte's PRO-P B550M motherboard adopts the compact form factor design of Micro-ATX, which is very suitable for users who build small and medium-sized computer platforms. The color of the motherboard adopts a calm black PCB substrate, which is also a color matching choice that can often be seen in the current motherboard, and the overall layout of the motherboard is a simple and practical style, without too many fancy decorative designs.
And many of the current mainstream motherboard layout is the same, GIGABYTE Small Eagle PRO-P B550M motherboard adopts a one-piece VRM thermal layout design, in the motherboard very important power supply module area using a large metal heat dissipation armor to dissipate heat from the power supply module, but also to the motherboard I / O interface area to support and protect. The surface of the heat dissipation armor is brushed with metal and engraved with the slogan "TEAM UP FIGHT ON".
The power supply area of the motherboard should not be based on the price of the people, and some of the design specifications have shrunk. The motherboard's very important power supply module area adopts a 10+2 phase straight-out digital power supply design, which is also to provide excellent support for AMD Ryzen processors.
Each set of power supply modules contains digital PWM chips, DrMOS and high-quality inductors, which can achieve accurate and stable power supply support for CPU processors. In addition, the solid capacitors in the module rectify the current ripple in the circuit, making the current more stable.
Although the GIGABYTE PRO-P B550M motherboard is a compact motherboard, it still provides a standard 4 DDR4 memory slots, with a bilateral snap-on fixed memory design and daisy-chain wiring different from the traditional parallel wiring design, which can better support high-frequency memory applications. It can support up to 128GB of memory capacity, support dual-channel memory technology, XMP and other series of memory technology. The maximum DDR4-3200 memory frequency is supported in the non-overclocked state, and the maximum DDR4-4733 memory frequency can be achieved in some processor models under the overclocking state.
The motherboard extends the interface area and provides two M.2 interfaces that support full-size installation, of which the M.2 interface near the CPU processor side supports the PCI4.0 x4 protocol direct connection cpu, and the other M.2 interface supports PCIe3.0x4 protocol provided by the motherboard chip. In addition, the motherboard provides two PCI-E x16 graphics card slots, one with enhanced armor design for increased slot strength, and a PCI-E x1 interface to install expansion boards.
Of course, there are also four horizontally placed SATA3.0 interfaces, which can be connected to multiple SATA interface hard disks or SSD solid-state drives, and can also be built through the motherboard B550 chip to form RAID 0, RAID 1 or RAID 10 and other disk array modes. In addition, the motherboard also provides user-friendly interface support such as RGB light bar connector and hybrid fan socket.
In the I/O interface area, the motherboard also provides a very rich interface support, the video interface provides a DP and an HDMI interface, which is enough to meet the daily external display equipment. Up to 4 USB2.0, 4 USB3.2, 1 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A (red), 1 USB Type-C USB interface is more than capable of multi-external device users. In addition, 1 RJ45 network cable interface, 1 S/PDIF optical output interface and 7.1 channel audio interface are the basic equipment of the motherboard now.
GIGABYTE P-P B550M motherboard performance test
In terms of platform hardware selection for testing the GIGABYTE PRO-P B550M motherboard, we selected the AMDRyzen95900X processor with the NVIDIA RTX2070 Super Exclusive Display plus the DDR4-3600 32GB memory kit of the KLEVV to form the core hardware of the entire motherboard test platform.
In addition to the AORUS theme design color matching in the motherboard BIOS interface design, the entire BIOS setting interface is quite simple and intuitive, and the system information presented can also be clearly and clearly in front of the user's eyes.
After entering the operating system, all test hardware is confirmed by CPU-Z again, and the CPU processor, memory and GPU graphics card are running in the correct settings and normal state to ensure the accuracy of the test results.
AIDA64Cache & Memory test
The AIDA64 memory test is mainly to test the performance data interaction effect between the memory and the CPU and the motherboard. Based on the test results, read: 54766MB/s, write: 54314MB/s, copy: 51667MB/s, delay: 63.5ns. The memory test results can actually see that the memory performance presented by the GIGABYTE PRO-P B550M motherboard is actually not large compared with the mainstream Intel motherboard chip with the same type of positioning, and maintains a fairly good performance performance.
PCMark10 machine test
PCMark10 tests the performance of the entire platform by simulating real-world applications, and we chose PCMark10 Extended to test through different scenarios such as everyday basic functions, simulated productivity applications, analog digital content creation applications, and simulated gaming applications.
PCMark10's overall test is to test how different types of users will behave when using the platform, and it can be seen that the platform based on the GIGABYTE PRO-P B550M motherboard has scored more than 10,000 in three sub-application scenarios, of which the digital content creation application has the highest wind, 11570. It also shows that the motherboard can play a good role in the performance of the Ryzen9 5900X and RTX2070Super on digital content creation applications.
UL Procyon benchmark
The UL Procyon Benchmark Suite provides hardware manufacturers and their suppliers with a range of accurate, relevant and unbiased benchmarks. Each Procyon benchmark is designed for a specific use case and uses real-world applications where possible. For the test option, we chose image processing and video processing, two simulation test scenarios that are fairly common for applications.
In the two picture and video simulation real applications, the performance of the picture application can be said to be very eye-catching, the basic and the same type of Intel platform score is similar, and in the video application is limited by the limitations of graphics card performance, the test score is in a decent range, but after all, the video application relies on the performance of the graphics card is greater than the CPU, so this score is also a reasonable range.
3DMark application testing
3DMark is a software designed to measure graphics card performance, but with the continuous iterative update of application technology, it has gradually transformed into a software that measures the performance of the whole machine. It mainly tests the performance of the platform's core hardware in 3D rendering and game scene load.
GPU performance testing – Fire Srtike Extreme
GPU performance testing – Time Spy
GPU performance testing – Port Royal
Gigabyte's PRO-P B550M motherboard is tested with RTX2070Super graphics card, and the overall performance is close to the average of the same type of hardware test results, indicating that the motherboard can basically play the overall performance of the graphics card.
CPU performance testing
GIGABYTE Pro-P B550M motherboard in the play of Ryzen9 5900X this 12 thread processor can see the side of the performance or can see the AMD Ryzen series processor in the simulation application performance, especially the load curve part, you can see the overall load and loading speed are good.
Storage device performance testing
Gigabyte's PRO-P B550M motherboard provides PCIe4.0 storage device support, so its test score is close to 1000 points higher than that obtained by the same type of hardware platform, and the amount of data interaction and access time when simulating loading the game is good.
Popular games for real testing
《F1 2020》
Tomb Raider
In the actual operation test of the two games, gigabyte pro-P B550M motherboard, as the linkage platform of the core hardware of the test platform, still plays the performance of the two core hardware of CPU and GPU very well.
Platform hardware load stability test
Motherboard as the main installation carrier of PC computer hardware, the motherboard can provide stable support in other hardware loads is particularly important, so through the copy machine load test to see how GIGABYTE PRO-P B550M motherboard will behave.
GIGABYTE PRO-P B550M motherboard has a number of temperature control status monitoring points on the motherboard to real-time the overall status of the motherboard operation, through AIDA64 can see the detailed monitoring situation and real-time data in the motherboard. When conducting the full load test, you can see that the overall temperature control of the motherboard has a good performance, and you can also see the solidity of the motherboard in materials and workmanship from one side.
Review summary
GIGABYTE PRO-P B550M motherboard is a compact B550 motherboard launched by GIGABYTE AORUS, the overall design and material workmanship of the motherboard maintain the consistent rigor and high-demand quality control of GIGABYTE and AORUS series, especially in the core area of the motherboard and there is no slightest shrinkage, full-featured support for high-performance accessories for motherboard loads to lay a solid foundation.
In the actual test, GIGABYTE PRO-P B550M motherboard presents a good performance and hardware compatibility performance, the overall performance has reached the level of the B550 motherboard, more importantly, its price positioning is close to the people, and can play a good role in the performance of high-end CPUs such as Ryzen9 5900X, for some users who aim to use high-end AMD processors and require the motherboard to be affordable and functional, GIGABYTE PRO-P The B550M motherboard is a great choice.