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Biostar X870E Valkyrie Motherboard Review – It’s Got Wings!

Hassan Mujtaba

CPU Power Consumption Tests

The AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs come in the same two or three chiplet configurations as the Ryzen 7000 series with one or two of which are the aforementioned AMD Zen 4 CCDs fabricated on the 4nm process node. Then we have the larger die around the center, the IOD, based on a 6nm process node. The AMD Ryzen 9000 CCD measures a die size of 70.6mm2 and features a total of 8.6 Billion transistors per CCD. The IOD has a die size of 122m2 and features 3.4 billion transistors.

Scattered around the package are several SMDs (capacitors/resistors) that usually sit under the package substrate if we consider Intel's CPUs. AMD is instead featuring them on the top layer and as such, they had to design a new kind of IHS which is internally referred to as the Octopus.

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Power Consumption (Stock System) Stress Test
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Idle
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70
140
210
280
350
420
0
70
140
210
280
350
420
ASRock X870E Taichi
385
110
ASRock X870E Taichi LITE
381
108
Biostar X870E Valkyrie
377
108
MSI MPG X870E Carbon WIFI
370
104
AORUS X870 ELITE WIFI7 ICE
362
104
MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk WIFI
359
100
ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi
358
101
Power Consumption (Stock) Gaming Test
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Load (PBO+CO)
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
ASRock X870E Taichi
103
112
ASRock X870E Taichi LITE
102
110
Biostar X870E Valkyrie
102
107
MSI MPG X870E Carbon WIFI
102
105
AORUS X870 ELITE WIFI7 ICE
101
105
ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi
101
104
MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk WIFI
100
Power Consumption (Stress PBO+CO) Cinebench Test
Load
Idle
0
90
180
270
360
450
540
0
90
180
270
360
450
540
ASRock X870E Taichi
433
120
ASRock X870E Taichi LITE
426
115
Biostar X870E Valkyrie
425
114
MSI MPG X870E Carbon WIFI
418
112
AORUS X870 ELITE WIFI7 ICE
410
111
ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi
408
107
MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk WIFI
404
105

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About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

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