Motherboard Performance
Testing the GIGABYTE Z890 AORUS ELITE X ICE was accomplished using the benchmarks below. The following components were used: Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF, Kingston Fury KF582C40-24(48GB), Team TForce Dark AirFlow GE Pro Gen5 NVME, ADATA SX8 100NP NVME, and the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7600 GAMING OC 8G video card. Comparison results are discussed from the recent reviews of the MSI MAG Z890 TOMAHAWK WiFi II and MSI Z890 GAMING PLUS WiFi6e, as these boards are identically outfitted.
In comparison with these two motherboards, the benchmark results are essentially even across the board. There were some higher scores for each of the two boards, but all in all, the performance is very equal. You will notice a low score on CrystalDisk in the M.2_5 slot. We could not fit our Team TForce Dark AirFlow GE Pro in the slot. This was purely a fitment issue, as the TeamGroup NVMe is wider than spec due to its design. The issue is the chipset heatsink on the Z890 AORUS ELITE X ICE; it is very close to the M.2_5 slot, and the TeamGroup NVME was just too wide to fit. In this case, we substituted an ADATA Gen4 NVMe, which fit without issue, to demonstrate the slot was working.
VRM Temperature
In this test, we ran Cinebench R23 multicore for a minimum of 20 minutes and then recorded the temperatures across the heatsinks using HWInfo64. The CPU temperatures reached a maximum of 82C, 100% utilization, and 5198MHz. VRM temperatures averaged 41C and PCH 39C. There was no thermal throttling, and no stability issues were encountered.
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