Performance – Part 1
All tests were performed on the Biostar B550M-Silver motherboard, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor, ASUS Strix RTX3070 8GB graphics card, 16GB ADATA Spectrix D50 DDR4-3600 CL17 memory kit, Kingston KC3000 2TB NVMe SSD for tests, and Team Group Delta MAX 1TB SATA SSD for the Windows 11 installation. Everything else will be mentioned during the tests.
Memory and processor performance
The motherboard has no problem handling memory up to DDR4-4400 at Gear 2. However, the optimal is to run Gear 1 mode and for that aim most users. Because of the CPU limitations, we could set DDR4-3733 while for tests has been used DDR4-3600 CL16, the most popular setting for gaming and provides optimum compatibility.
Below is a quick test at DDR4-3600 CL16 and Gear 1 mode.
PCMark 10
PCMark results are essential as they show how all components work together in a mixed load environment. It can be translated into regular daily work, so what we all do and expect good results.
Our results are about as high as that on the top X570 motherboards that cost much more.
Storage performance
SATA performance has been tested using Team Group Delta MAX SSD. Because of the installed OS, the maximum bandwidth is slightly lower than the specified speed of the SSD, but we know that the motherboard can reach its declared values.
Some amazing results we can see on the KC3000 NVMe SSD from Kingston. Results are below and are about the best we have seen in our redaction on a single SSD.
USB performance
USB 3.2 performance has been tested using Patriot Rage Pro 500GB flash drive. The performance isn’t the highest we’ve seen on this flash drive but is about as high as specified, so all is fine.
Network performance
The B550M-Silver offers us a 2.5G Realtek LAN controller, which works without issues and with low latency. The data server was connected via a 10G LAN controller and Netgear XS505M 10G switch, so there were no bandwidth limits. At the same time, other devices were connected to the network to simulate a typical daily workload. The typical bandwidth during longer work is between 1000Mbps and 2000Mbps, but we couldn’t pass 2000Mbps.
Let’s move to some 3D benchmarks and games.
