Performance – Part 1
All tests were performed on the ASRock X870E Nova motherboard, AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processor, Colorful RTX4080 Advanced OC graphics card, 96GB Kingston Renegade RGB DDR5-6400 CL32 memory kit, and Predator GM7000 2TB PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 SSD. Additional M.2 storage tests were performed on Crucial 2TB T705 PCIe 5.0 x4 SSD. The Win11 x64 environment with the latest updates was used for the tests. Everything else will be mentioned during the tests.
Memory performance
The motherboard has no problem booting with memory up to DDR5-8000, precisely as specified. We can count on some more if we use a Ryzen 9000 series or 8000 series APU. However, with the CPU used, the DDR5-6400 seems like the best option as it uses the 1:1 IF ratio. It’s still more than enough for most users. However, as we can see on the screenshot from AIDA64, the performance is relatively standard for the settings.
Processor performance and mixed load tests
The rendering benchmark results are pretty good. About the same scores are obtained on other ASRock X870/X870E motherboards or competitive brands like Gigabyte.
Above is the latest version of the Blender benchmark, and below are Cinebench R23 and 2024 results.
PCMark results are essential as they show how all components work with each other in a mixed-load environment. It can be translated into regular daily work, so what we all do and expect good results. The X870E Nova performs well in all PCMark 10 tests. Below are our results in the Applications benchmark, which focuses on popular Microsoft applications.
Storage performance
The maximum bandwidth with the Crucial T705 2TB NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD was about 14227MB/s. It’s pretty good, but higher ASRock models perform slightly better. You can see some of them in our other reviews, and more are on the way, so we already know how they perform.
One of the flagship improvements of the X870 and X870E chipsets is the native USB4, which gives us amazing performance. It’s not the fastest USB4 result, but it confirms that the controller works well.
On the next page, we continue performance tests and focus more on gaming and networking.
