Gigabyte also offers more affordable motherboards (compared to Z890 models) featuring the B860 chipset. While the specifications in this class are relatively modest, they are reflected in the lower price, making the B860 Aorus Elite WiFi7 (Ice) an attractive choice for builds. This is especially true for the tested Ice variant if you’re looking for motherboards with a white PCB. Such models do exist, but they are relatively rare.
Cinebench R20
Cinebench R23
Please note: On the LGA 1700 platform, in the reduced power mode (IPL) to the long-term 125 W level, we observe lower computing performance than it was with older BIOSes since December last year. The power consumption is indeed as expected, but that’s with inefficient clock speed management. Within it, the E cores get more space (manifested by their higher clock speeds) than the P cores, for which there is not much left. This typically results in very low clock speeds (of the P cores of the test CPU model).
Blender@Cycles
Test environment: We use well distributed projects BMW (510 tiles) and Classroom (2040 tiles) and the renderer Cycles. Render settings are set to None, with which all the work falls on the CPU.
LuxRender (SPECworkstation 3.1)
