Motherboard Performance
Testing the MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WiFi II was accomplished using the benchmarks below. The following components were used: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, Corsair Vengeance DDR5 32GB at 6000MT/s (CMH32G5M2D6000C36), ADATA Legend 970 Pro Gen5 NVME, and the XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 XT White Gaming Edition graphics card. Comparison results are discussed from the recent reviews of the MSI MAG B850 GAMING PLUS MAX WiFi , as that board is equally outfitted.
Below you will find a gallery of result screenshots from our testing protocol and a brief discussion of the results compared to the other motherboard with the same or similar components. We chose not to compare directly with the MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WiFi due to a very different group of hardware in that testing. The MAG B850 GAMING PLUS MAX WiFi used almost identical components. We did have to swap out our trusty MSI Spatium M580 drive as it simply bit-the-bullet during testing on this motherboard.
The benchmark testing is essentially identical across the board, comparing the MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WiFi II and the MAG B850 GAMING PLUS MAX WiFi. It only stands to reason, as the boards are identically outfitted. There was no huge loss or gain in performance between these two MAG B850 “MAX” motherboards. Any differences are within the margin of error.
VRM Temperature
In this test, we run Cinebench R23 multicore for 20 minutes minimum and then record the temperatures across the heatsinks using HWInfo64. The CPU temperatures reached a maximum of 94.1C, 100% utilization and 5500MHz. VRM temperatures averaged 34.3C. There was no thermal throttle, and no stability issues were encountered.