Performance

For performance testing I ran through a mix of standard benchmarks, these aren’t really there to show a big performance gap between any motherboards. But just to make sure everything is running smoothly and to make sure that no boards are overclocking our CPU more than they should be. But I did do the testing with the CPU power limits set to 250 watts just like in our CPU launch testing so that shouldn’t be an issue. It also gives a look at what the Z690 Carbon WiFi paired up with the 12900K and an RTX 3080 can do as well and surprise surprise, it’s a lot!

The main test that does take a look at an area that can vary from motherboard to motherboard was the network testing down at the bottom. Depending on what network controller is used performance can vary and in the case of WiFi performance I have found in the past that the included antennas make a big difference as well. I still have more Z690 boards to test before we see how the Carbon compares, but it did do well in all three tests with the 1G network coming in just a hair below that and the 2.5G test at 2356 Mb/s. The WiFi may look a little low, but that is in line with what I typically see in my house for any WiFi 6 device, if not a little on the high side.