Question With bios updates delivered over the course of a year, do all the MB's from the big manufacturer's, end up with the same performance?

[CHADBOGA]

I'm currently planning an AMD build in Dec or January, so have been doing my research for that now.

In looking up reviews on x470 motherboards, not only did I struggle to find many reviews that benchmarked motherboards against each other, those few that did, did so in the early stages of the motherboard's release and it looked like some motherboards may have needed a bios update, as they were 10%+ behind in some applications/benchmarks.

The two manufacturer's that I was most keen on choosing between, ASRock(x470 Taichi) and Gigabyte(x470 Aurorus), seemed to be strangely behind on the odd benchmark(if one can believe Trusted Reviews), but if these issues were fixed, it seems no website has details of them being benchmarked say 6 months after release.

Anyone know of a site that has "up to date" benchmark results for motherboards?

 

[VirtualLarry]

TBH, I've never seen any point to "benchmarking" a motherboard (A/B testing), as that only promotes the behavior that we used to see from vendors, like Asus setting their BCLK to 101.5 or something, rather than 100Mhz, just to "win" motherboard benchmarks.

The biggest difference that I can probably see from AM4 motherboards, would be their "DRAM timing databases" in BIOS, and whether or not they set the timings and sub-timings for your particular RAM kit to optimum levels.

I honestly don't see any real performance differences between AM4 motherboards other than that, especially since the AM4 CPUs are SoCs themselves, and have the memory controller on CPU. There's not much room for performance differences in mobos, probably down to any BIOS tweaks, if any.

In short, I doubt (*unless given evidence to the contrary) that you have anything to worry about with performance "regressions" with AM4 boards, save for BIOS updates that might implement fixes, or make things more conservative (like 1.0.0.3ABB disabling PCI-E 4.0 on older boards).