Performance – Part 1
All tests were performed on the Biostar B760A-Silver motherboard, Intel i5-13600 processor, Colorful RTX4080 Advanced OC 16GB graphics card, 32GB Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5-7200@6666 memory kit, and Kingston Renegade 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD on which was installed Windows 11 Pro. Everything else will be mentioned during the tests.
The motherboard has no problems boosting the CPU to its optimal frequency, as seen in the CPU-Z screenshot.
Processor performance and mixed load tests
During the tests were no problems with stability or reaching the processor’s declared frequency. Voltages were within’ specified values. The used CPU is locked, so we can’t perform additional overclocking, but it’s fast enough, so most users won’t ever need it to run faster. Biostar also describes the B760 series as designed for less demanding users who can live with locked processors, so the test setup seems just right for the target end-user.
Compression and decompression performance is just right. The 7-Zip benchmark passed multiple times with similar results.
Rendering benchmarks show pretty good performance, slightly higher than the recently reviewed Colorful motherboard. It’s also related to a bit faster RAM setting, which the Colorful motherboard couldn’t handle, and we could set it on the B760A-Silver motherboard.
The same good scores are in Blender and Cinebench R23 benchmarks.
PCMark 10
PCMark 10 seems essential due to its tests that simulate daily workloads. Here we have the Applications benchmark, which uses popular Microsoft Office to perform tests. Considering our test rig specifications, all the results are as high as expected.
Memory performance
The motherboard officially supports RAM up to 6400MT/s. With not the best i5-13600, we could reach 6666MT/s, so it’s a pretty good result. On most other motherboards with this processor, we couldn’t reach DDR5-6600, and full stability was at maximum DDR5-6400. Biostar lets us set one or two ratios higher with the mentioned DDR5-6666.
Storage performance
M.2 SSD performance is higher than expected. Intel chipsets usually can’t make much above 7000MB/s, while we have up to 7124MB/s on the Biostar motherboard.
The same USB performance is pretty good. We don’t have 20Gbps ports, but the USB 3.2 Gen2 10Gbps ports give us up to 1038MB/s on Patriot USB SSD, rated at 1000MB/s. Again, a bit better than expected.
On the next page, we will check how the B760A-Silver performs in 3D tests and games.
