Although the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has not officially approved the Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) specification, products based on this technology have begun to be launched.
Intel has already launched its first Wi-Fi 7 controllers and adapters, which will be available in various forms this year. Intel has listed two Wi-Fi 7 network cards on its official website: BE200 and BE202.
Both network cards support 2×2 TX / RX streams, support 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz, with a maximum network speed of up to 5Gbps (Wi-Fi 7 has a theoretical maximum throughput of 46 Gbps), even compared to Intel’s official website W-iFi 7 standard The claimed maximum data rate of 5.8 Gbps is still a bit off, but it’s on par with previous demonstrations.
For comparison, Intel’s current AX210 Wi-Fi 6E wireless card is capable of speeds of up to 2.4Gbps, and the AX411 is capable of 3Gbps.
In terms of differences, the two products seem to differ in frequency bands. BE202 has an additional (160MHz) annotation in its 6GHz band support. Additionally, Intel claims that the BE200 is pre-certified for Wi-Fi 7, while the BE202 is not.
It is noticed that Intel’s BE200 and BE202 both support PCIe and USB interfaces and can be used in desktop motherboards and laptops.
As @momomo_us points out, the upcoming Gigabyte Aorus Z790 Master X motherboard (PCB version 1.2) will come with the BE200 network card pre-installed. Meanwhile, other versions will use Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi 7 QCNCM865 (PCB version 1.0) and MediaTek’s Wi-Fi 7 MT7927, RZ738 (PCB version 1.1) network cards.
Of course, to take advantage of Wi-Fi 7, users also need to use Wi-Fi 7-compatible routers and APs, but most routers currently do not support the 6GHz band.
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