Motherboard Performance
Testing the MSI MPG X870E CARBON MAX WiFi was accomplished using the benchmarks below. The following components were used: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, Corsair Vengeance DDR5 32GB at 6000MT/s (CMH32G5M2D6000C36), Team TForce Dark AirFlow GE 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 X870E TOMAHAWK MAX WiFi PZ and the GIGABYTE X870E AERO X3D WOOD motherboards, as these are equally equipped. Below you will find a gallery of result screenshots from our testing protocol and a brief discussion of the results compared to the other motherboards with the same or similar components.
Overall, there are no glaring differences between these three X870E motherboards in performance metrics. We used different memory and a GPU on the MSI MAG TOMAHAWK MAX WiFi PZ; thus, AIDA64 and 3DMark scores were different. Of note, you can see the difference in BIOS switching M.2_2. Again, to emphasize, if you wish to have Gen5 x 4 performance at this slot, you disable the USB4 function on the rear I/O. All that taken into consideration and accounting for different components, the performance in these benchmarks comparing the OG MSI MPG X780E CARBON WiFi to the MSI MPG X870E CARBON MAX WiFi is identical. There were no issues running any of our benchmark tests.
VRM Temperatures
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 93C, 100% utilization, and 5428MHz. VRM temperatures averaged 47C. There was no thermal throttle, and no stability issues were encountered.