Performance – Part 1
All tests were performed on the ASRock X870 NOVA WIFI 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 an ADATA MARS 980 BLADE 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 with memory up to DDR5-8000 on the Ryzen 7950X, for which it’s about the maximum possible setting. We can expect more performance gains if we use a good Ryzen 9000 series or 8000 series APU. However, it was unlikely to stabilize a 6400MT/s at a 1:1 ratio, while it had worked on every previously tested ASRock X870 and X870E motherboard with the same processor and RAM.
Processor performance and mixed load tests
The rendering benchmark results are pretty good. Identical scores are obtained on ASRock X870/X870E motherboards or high-end motherboard series from competitive brands like Gigabyte or MSI.
Above is the latest version of the Blender benchmark, and below are Cinebench R23 and 2024 results. The X870 NOVA performs slightly better than the previously tested ASRock B850 series and is comparable to other ASRock X870 and X870E series models.
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, as used tests are primarily based on popular home and office applications from Microsoft.
The X870 NOVA performs well in all PCMark 10 tests, not worse than the X870E motherboards. Below are our results in the Applications benchmark.
Storage performance
The maximum bandwidth with the ADATA MARS 980 BLADE 2TB NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD was about 14612MB/s. It’s better that we could achieve on most previously tested motherboards.
The X870 NOVA supports USB4. There is, however, one limitation. If we use the M.2_2 socket, its bandwidth will be cut in half. Still, we didn’t use more M.2 SSDs, so our USB test results show full bandwidth. The used external SSD is slightly slower than the maximum bandwidth, but we can see that the USB4 works fast.
On the next page, we continue performance tests, focusing more on gaming.
