Steve from Hardware unboxed, seen above pointing out the next set of companies that won’t send him samples after his videos, discovered an interesting issue when setting up his latest Z790 test system. While he was doing so, he found that the Gigabyte boards substantially outperformed other models in Horizon Zero Dawn and Spiderman Remastered. What he discovered was that Gigabyte disables resizable bar by default. All the other manufactures enabled it by default.
Steve was testing with a Z790, i9-13900K, and RTX 4090. Even with a performance issue, these games were still going to outpace the refresh rates of most monitors. Our test platform is based on a Z690 and i9-12900K. I have an RTX 3080 and a Radeon 6900XT. Since the 6900XT was already in position for testing, I decided to do a quick Rebar test, and plan to do the RTX 3080 at a later date.
To my pleasant surprise, Rebar actually helped the performance of the 6900XT. Test was conducted at 1080P, Ultra settings. I plan to test it again on my Nvida RTX 3080 system for reference.
