Performance – Part 2
3D performance and games
3D tests were performed on the RTX4080 graphics card from Colorful, which is still one of the fastest options on the current market.
Superposition benchmark at 8K display resolution gives us as high scores as expected.
All the UL benchmarks perform great and even slightly better than expected. Below are our results, which are close to the error margin compared to the reviewed X870 and X870E motherboards.
The PCIe bandwidth test shows us the typical PCIe 4.0 x16 bandwidth. Nothing unusual to see here.
The latest Steel Nomad benchmark gives us even higher FPS than on some X870E motherboards. It’s only a 1FPS difference, but it translates into 100 points in this benchmark.
UL benchmarks are mainly known for the 3DMark series, which has been a market standard for years. The new tests provide support for the latest graphics card technologies. However, they’re not games, and users often wish to know the results of their favorite titles. Since covering all games is impossible, some selected at 1440p at ultra settings are below.
All the games give us results that are very close to what we could see on previously reviewed ASRock X870 and X870E motherboards. It’s great news for gamers who care about FPS, not additional features or controllers.
Networking
The B850M Riptide has a 2.5Gbps Dragon RTL8125BG LAN and MediaTek WiFi 7. Both options are perfect for even more demanding users. During various tests, we had no problems with the connection quality on both connection types.
Our result for the TamoSoft benchmark is an average of 2377Mpbs, which is slightly less than the maximum network controller bandwidth, but it’s never close, so we see it as a very good result.
Overclocking
The Ryzen 9 7950X is not the best chip for overclocking, but it still runs without issues at 5400MHz at all cores, which is an above-average result. The same maximum frequency could be set on more expensive motherboards, which proves that the B850M Riptide is well-designed.
We can find all the settings we need in BIOS for CPU and RAM overclocking.
As in all ASRock motherboards, we have the whole list of AMD overclocking options in a separate tab, in addition to ASRock options. However, less advanced users may pick one of the easy-to-set PBO profiles prepared by ASRock for various power limits.
