Performance
When it comes to performance testing, typically motherboard to motherboard we aren’t going to see any big performance difference when running the same components and clock speeds. The exception to that is when boards are auto overclocking of course and there are a few areas where components can make a difference like with ethernet and USB controllers. For testing the X870E Carbon Wifi I ran through a few basic 3DMark benchmarks, PCMark, and Passmark Performance Test 11. I also tested in a few games. The X870E Carbon Wifi performed well in all of those tests, falling in line but a touch on the high side compared to the other 4 boards tested. I also ran networking tests, once with the wired connection which the X870E Carbon Wifi has a Realtek 8126 5G NIC. It came in at 4884.7 Mbps which is in line with what you would expect to see there and was a hair faster than the X870E-E that also has a 5G NIC. The second connection runs on the Realtek 8125 2.5G LAN and was a little slower than the Intel 2.5G NICs tested on the other boards but was still not bad at 2355 Mbps. For wireless the X870E Carbon Wifi uses a Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 Wifi 7 wireless NIC and it supports 320 MHz wide bands. Our tests were done on a 6E network which means there is still performance on the table. But you can see that it was a little faster than the X870-I which also supports 320 MHz.
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3DMark – Speed Way – Overall Score |
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7 |
10210 |
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Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi |
10164 |
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ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi |
10185 |
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ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi |
10144 |
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wifi |
10189 |
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Motherboard |
Overall Score |
Graphics Score |
CPU Score |
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7 |
29716 |
34970 |
16051 |
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Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi |
29375 |
34688 |
15727 |
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ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi |
29268 |
34630 |
15590 |
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ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi |
29269 |
34574 |
15658 |
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wifi |
29394 |
34749 |
15693 |
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3DMark – Time Spy Extreme |
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Motherboard |
Overall Score |
Graphics Score |
CPU Score |
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7 |
17544 |
19139 |
11917 |
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Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi |
17451 |
19098 |
11724 |
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ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi |
17472 |
19093 |
11798 |
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ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi |
17450 |
19085 |
11750 |
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wifi |
17476 |
19069 |
11863 |
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PCMark 10 Score |
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Motherboard |
Overall Score |
Essentials |
Productivity |
Content Creation |
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7 |
10108 |
11842 |
12221 |
19368 |
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Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi |
10177 |
11874 |
12381 |
19453 |
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ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi |
9931 |
11992 |
12325 |
17983 |
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ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi |
10155 |
11932 |
12494 |
19064 |
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wifi |
10273 |
12088 |
12536 |
19412 |
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Passmark PerformanceTest 11 |
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Motherboard |
Overall |
CPU Mark |
2D Graphics Mark |
3d Graphics Mark |
Memory Mark |
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7 |
16553.8 |
63943.3 |
1128.2 |
33342.5 |
4109.0 |
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Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi |
16416.0 |
63743.0 |
1184.2 |
33363.9 |
3903.5 |
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ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi |
16489.5 |
63858.8 |
1176.4 |
33415.6 |
3984.8 |
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ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi |
16149.9 |
63476.9 |
1177.7 |
33281.4 |
3932.5 |
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wifi |
16446.3 |
63908.0 |
1176.6 |
33476.7 |
3931.6 |
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Watch Dogs Legion – 4K Ultra Detail – Average FPS |
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7 |
122 FPS |
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Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi |
122 FPS |
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ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi |
122 FPS |
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ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi |
122 FPS |
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wifi |
122 FPS |
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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands Breakpoint – 4K Ultra Detail Preset - Average FPS |
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7 |
146 FPS |
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Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi |
147 FPS |
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ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi |
149 FPS |
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ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi |
148 FPS |
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wifi |
148 FPS |
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Far Cry 6 – 4K Ultra Detail - Average FPS |
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7 |
142 FPS |
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Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi |
144 FPS |
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ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi |
145 FPS |
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ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi |
145 FPS |
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wifi |
142 FPS |
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Average Network Speed – WiFi 6E - Mbits/Sec |
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7 – MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 MT7925 |
1003.9 Mbits/sec |
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Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi - MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 |
1020.4 Mbits/sec |
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ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi |
993.9 Mbits/sec |
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ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi - MediaTek MT7927 |
1518.7 Mbits/sec |
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wifi – Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 Wifi 7 |
1647.8 Mbits/sec |
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Average Network Speed – wired on 10G Network - Mbits/Sec |
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7– Realtek 2.5GbE NIC |
2464.7 Mbits/sec |
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Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi - Realtek 2.5GbE NIC |
2437.9 Mbits/sec |
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ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi - Realtek 5Gb Ethernet |
4859.4 Mbits/sec |
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ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi – Intel I226-V 2.5GbE NIC |
2448.1 Mbits/sec |
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wifi - Realtek 8125 2.5G LAN |
2355.1 Mbits/sec |
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MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wifi - Realtek 8126 5G LAN |
4884.7 Mbits/sec |
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Before finishing up my testing I did want to check out the lighting. The X870E Carbon Wifi has RGB lighting in two locations, the MSI dragon on the rear I/O cover is all lit up, and then the Carbon logo below the CPU socket on the top M.2 heatsink. I would prefer to see some styling to the lighting rather than just lighting up branding, but I am happy that it isn’t all in one area. Beyond that, the power and reset buttons are both backlit and it also has the status LED display next to the memory.
I also put the 7850X3D in the AIDA64 CPU Stress test using the PFU workload for a half hour. I did this to heat things up and pull power to get a look at how the thermals on the X870E Carbon Wifi. The hottest temperature I saw was 58.3c up under the left VRM heatsink. Going in, I was curious how the two heatsinks would handle things without being linked together with a heatpipe and we can see there is a 2-degree difference. That’s not enough to be an issue at all, however. The plastic cover for the rear I/O is plastic and that shows here as well as it is insulating the heatsink a little bit. There is some heat to the left of the CPU in the PCB and in the top left corner which is always the hottest spot but overall the X870E Carbon Wifi’s cooling did well.
