ASRock Z790 Riptide WiFi Motherboard Review

Energy consumption …

PC energy consumption varies depending on the hardware and PC load. We have listed a few interesting system configurations in the following table. The power consumption of the test PC with 2x Crucial 8GB DDR5-4800 memory, SSD and Cooler Master Silent Pro M 600W power supply was as follows without overclocking, depending on the load:

Motherboard CPU GPU Idle Load
ASRock Z790 Riptide WiFi Intel Core i9-14900K
LGA1700
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card 49.2W 402.8W
ASRock Z790 Riptide WiFi Intel Core i9-14900K
LGA1700
Intel UHD Graphics 770 GPU 28.8W 350.2W
ASRock Z790 Taichi Intel Core i7-12700K
LGA1700
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card 60.3W 304.1W
ASRock Z790 Taichi Intel Core i7-12700K
LGA1700
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU 42.7W 226.6W
ASRock B650E Taichi Lite AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
Socket AM5
AMD Radeon Graphics GPU 52W 173W
ASRock B650E Taichi AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
Socket AM5
AMD Radeon Graphics GPU 54W 158W
ASRock X670E Taichi Carrara AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
Socket AM5
AMD Radeon Graphics GPU 59W 163W
ASRock Z790 Steel Legend WiFi Intel Core i7-12700K
LGA1700
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card 47.6W 310.2W
ASRock Z790 Steel Legend WiFi Intel Core i7-12700K
LGA1700
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU 29.6W 237.4W
ASRock Z590 Extreme Intel Core i5-10500
LGA1200
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card 44.6W 243.8W
ASRock Z590 Extreme Intel Core i5-10500
LGA1200
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU 31.6W 101.7W
ASRock H470 Steel Legend Intel Core i7-12700K
LGA1700
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card 44.3W 262.8W
ASRock H470 Steel Legend Intel Core i7-12700K
LGA1700
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card 52.5W 307.2W
ASRock H470 Steel Legend Intel Core i7-12700K
LGA1700
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU 29.9W 157.2W
ASRock B460 Steel Legend Intel Core i7-12700K
LGA1700
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card 42.5W 266.9W
ASRock B460 Steel Legend Intel Core i7-12700K
LGA1700
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card 53.9W 316.4W
ASRock B460 Steel Legend Intel Core i7-12700K
LGA1700
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU 28.8W 167.4W
ASRock B365 Pro4 Intel Core i9-9900K
LGA1151 v2
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card 41.3W 280.4W
ASRock B365 Pro4 Intel Core i9-9900K
LGA1151 v2
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU 23.1W 193.1W
ASRock Z390 Extreme4 Intel Core i7-8700K
LGA1151 v2
MSI Radeon R9 280 46.3W 272.8W
ASRock Z390 Extreme4 Intel Core i7-8700K
LGA1151 v2
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU 29.3W 119.9W
ASRock H370 Performance Intel Core i7-8700K
LGA1151 v2
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card 49.7W 284.1W
ASRock H370 Performance Intel Core i7-8700K
LGA1151 v2
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU 29.1W 126.0W
ASRock Z270 Killer SLI Intel Core i5-7600K
Kaby Lake LGA1151
MSI Radeon R9 280 45.7W 262.9W
ASRock Z270 Killer SLI Intel Core i5-7600K
Kaby Lake LGA1151
Intel HD Graphics 630 GPU 34.8W 117.4W
ASRock X299 Creator Intel Core i9-10900X
Cascade Lake-X LGA 2066
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card 72.1W 373.2W
ASRock X299 Creator Intel Core i9-7900X
Skylake-X LGA 2066
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card 79.2W 360.7W
ASRock X299 Creator Intel Core i9-10900X
Cascade Lake-X LGA 2066
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card 78.4W 353.6W
ASRock X299 Creator Intel Core i9-7900X
Skylake-X LGA 2066
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card 87.2W 371.1W
ASRock X299 Taichi Intel Core i9-7900X
Skylake-X LGA 2066
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card 82.5W 345.4W
ASRock X399 Taichi AMD Threadripper
1950X Socket TR4
MSI Radeon R9 280 77.5W 305.3W
ASRock X370 Taichi AMD Ryzen 1600
Socket AM4
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card 52.5W 265.1W
ASRock X370 Taichi AMD Ryzen 1800X
Socket AM4
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card 55.1W 284.8W
ASRock Z170 Extreme6 Intel Core i5-6600K
Skylake LGA1151
MSI Radeon R9 280 50.5W 259.1W
ASRock Z170 Extreme6 Intel Core i5-6600K
Skylake LGA1151
Intel HD Graphics 530 GPU 36.0W 70.7W
ASRock X99 Extreme6 Intel Core i7-5930K
LGA 2011-3
MSI Radeon R9 280 60.5W 290.4W
ASRock Z97 Extreme6 Intel Core i5-4670K
LGA1151
MSI Radeon R9 280 53.1W 270.7W
ASRock Z97 Extreme6 Intel Core i5-4670K
LGA1151
Sapphire HD6870 55.8W 219.5W
ASRock Z97 Extreme6 Intel Core i5-4670K
LGA1151
Intel HD Graphics 4600 GPU 33.5W 94.5W
ASRock FM2A88X+ Killer AMD A10-7850K
Kaveri Socket FM2+
Sapphire HD6870 56.3W 233.5W
ASRock FM2A88X+ Killer AMD A10-7850K
Kaveri Socket FM2+
AMD Radeon R7 GPU 30.2W 118.8W
ASRock FM2A85X-ITX AMD A10-5800K
Trinity Socket FM2
Sapphire HD6870 52.9W 221.0W
ASRock FM2A85X-ITX AMD A10-5800K
Trinity Socket FM2
AMD Radeon HD7660D GPU 29.4W 120.4W

How high the power costs of the PC are with or without overclocking depending on the performance and running time can be calculated with our interactive PC power cost calculator:


Interactive power consumption Calculator

ASRock Z790 Riptide WiFi Result and general impression …