Motherboard Performance
Testing the GIGABYTE X870E AERO X3D DARK WOOD was accomplished using the benchmarks below. The following components were used: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, GSkill Trident Z5 DDR5 (F5-6000J3038F16X2-TZ5N), TEAMGROUP T-FORCE GR PRO Airflow 2TB Gen5 NVME, and the ASRock RX 7600 XT Steel Legend 16G OC graphics card. Comparison results are discussed from the recent reviews of the GIGABYTE X870E AORUS ELITE X3D and GIGABYTE X870E AERO X3D WOOD motherboards, as those boards were 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.
In reviewing the benchmarks, allowing for some different component choices this time around, the results are still very consistently similar across the three motherboards. This is no surprise, as two of the boards are essentially the same, and the third is from the same manufacturer.
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 91C, 100% utilization, and 5246MHz. VRM temperatures averaged 36C. There was no thermal throttle, and no stability issues were encountered. We saw in this testing that the GIGABYTE X870E AERO X3D DARK WOOD motherboard ran temperatures equal to or lower than most of the X870E refresh motherboards we have tested recently. The DARK WOOD’s temperatures nearly match the plain WOOD as you would expect.