Gigabyte Launches X870E Aorus Xtreme X3D AI TOP Motherboard With Built-In Display

Motherboards are definitely getting more sophisticated but this new entrant from Gigabyte may take the cake, at least currently. Gigabyte's new X870E Aorus Xtreme X3D AI TOP is a refined and revised version of its extant X870E Aorus Xtreme AI TOP motherboard that is targeted specifically at users with AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D processors that feature the company's apparently-contentious 3D V-Cache technology.

Gigabyte says that the key feature of the new board is "X3D Turbo Mode 2.0", which it describes as "a dynamic AI overclocking model trained on big data." Gigabyte claims that by using AI to fine-tune frequency, power, and thermal behavior, X3D Turbo Mode 2.0 can improve gaming performance by as much as 25%. That's a humongous margin if it holds up in third-party testing. It also claims multi-threaded performance gains of 14%, which is a much more plausible number; you can probably ...