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 ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi I ran through a few basic 3DMark benchmarks, PCMark, and Passmark Performance Test 11. I also tested in a few games. The ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi was running with the 7950X3D for the CPU and a Founders Editon RTX 4090 and I have comparison numbers from the three other X870 and X870E motherboards that I have tested. No big surprises, but the ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi tested right in line with all of them in all of those tests. I also ran networking tests, once with the wired connection. It has an Intel 2.5G NIC and the 2448.1 Mbps score is right in line with that and comparable to the two other boards using a 2.5G NIC as well. I ran the same test with the wireless connection as well. The ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi has a Wifi 7 NIC but all of the boards, including this one have all been tested on our WiFi 6E network. Wifi 7 is coming, but for now, this is a look at what you can expect from 6E. The ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi’s wireless connection can support 320MHz. I only tested at the 160MHz supported by Wifi 6E, but even still we see it outperform the three other boards tested running at 1518 Mbps.

Before finishing up my testing I did want to check out the lighting but other than the glow coming from our water cooling, there isn’t any visible lighting on the ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi.

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 ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi would look using a thermal camera. Being an ITX board, heat is hard to deal with but it does have the fan built into the heatsink to the left of the CPU socket. The hottest spot ended up being near the top edge of the board above the CPU socket. The PCB between the CPU and the VRMs was at 55.7c. That’s a little warmer than we see on a full ATX board that has room for larger heatsinks, overall this isn’t bad for an ITX board.

• Asus
• ROG
• Motherboard
• X870
• ITX
• Strix