Performance – Part 1
All tests were performed on the Biostar X870E Valkyrie 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, the X870E Valkyrie doesn’t work with our Kingston Renegade 6400MT/s memory kit at a 1:1 ratio, which is recommended for all Ryzen processors. The maximum we could set was 6200MT/s, which, because of the enhanced RAM performance option in BIOS, performs even better than standard settings at 6400MT/s.
Processor performance and mixed load tests
The rendering benchmark results are pretty good and slightly better than those we achieved on ASRock or Gigabyte motherboards.
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 Valkyrie 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 14447MB/s. It’s about as high as our best results on some other X870E motherboards. 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 fantastic performance. The performance is also as high as the best we could make on competitive X870/X870E motherboards.
On the next page, we continue performance tests and focus more on gaming and networking.
