Will the MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk Motherboard Fully Support Wifi 7?

[Smasher7896]

Hi all,

I'm building a PC and I'm looking at the MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk Motherboard for my PC.
I used my last PC for 10 years and I expect the same for this one and I would like to make sure it will fully support Wifi 7 as I will probably upgrade to a Wifi 7 router down the road.
I'm not super well versed with WiFi 7, I know that it opens up a new 6GHz frequency with 320 MHz bandwidth (I think it's the main selling point of Wifi 7) which according to the below spec, the MSI motherboard will support. But I also know that new Wifi revisions comes with other quality of life features to boost performance and I would like to know if this motherboard will support them

Alternatively I was also considering the Asus TUF Gaming z890-Pro and I was surprised that Asus was nerfing their motherboards' WIFI 7 performance by only supporting 160MHz on the the 6GHz band

Thank you

 

[degrub]

As with previous iterations, you would have to ask Intel and MSI what THEIR plans are, wouldn't one ? And even then, business plans change over time. No one here can tell you.

Just roll the dice....

 

[Smasher7896]

As with previous iterations, you would have to ask Intel and MSI what THEIR plans are, wouldn't one ? And even then, business plans change over time. No one here can tell you.

Just roll the dice....

Thanks for your answer.
Sorry I must be missing a critical piece of information because I don't understand what you mean.
The MSI motherboard and the Intel Wifi module are already out (and the specs are known) and the wifi 7 standard has been finalised as far as I know. So what "plans" are unfinished and what could change in the future exactly? Could you elaborate?

From my research, what I see as Wifi7's new features are:

• 6GHz band and 320MHZ (MSI supports it)
• 4k-QAM (MSI supports it)
• MLO (MSI supports it)
• MRU (no MRU mention in the MSI specs)
• 16x16 MU-MIMO (MSI specs says MU-MIMO but it doesn't say 16x so unsure how to interpret this)

Am I reading this correctly? Are there any other Wifi 7's important performance feature I'm missing besides the one listed above?

 

[degrub]

Well, you can read the standard as well as anyone to see what is optional and what the required minimums are for a device to be called wifi7 or a version of it. Whether the manufacturer fully/minimally implements is up to them. We don't have that knowledge. Remember the roll out of Wireless N standard and all of the compatibility issues ? 7 is no different but may be less compelling in many of the "features".

So, like i said, roll the dice. Since it is an external module, it should be replaceable as well.

 

[Ripshod]

Intel® Killer™ Wi-Fi 7 BE1750 (x/w) - Product Specifications | Intel

Intel® Killer™ Wi-Fi 7 BE1750 (x/w) quick reference with specifications, features, and technologies.

www.intel.com

So that card's specs do say 320Mhz, but with 2x2 radios how does that compare to a usb3 dongle?