Application & Synthetic Testing
Outside of gaming and encoding, there are few applications on the desktop that will push our systems to the limits; this especially becomes apparent when we start talking about multi-core processors that are now the norm. Some multi-thread aware encoding and content creation applications are starting to reach into all available threads and truly utilize the processing power of these multi-core CPUs.
We have included various benchmarks, not really for evaluating the performance of a motherboard but rather to ensure the system works properly and that the system is stable and can complete the tests. Also included the synthetic Cinebench R20 and POV-Ray benchmarks as well that should give you an idea about how 3D content production programs will perform when rendering scenes. We have simply timed our various tests on the different systems and supplied you with the amount of time it took for the system to fully build the file. SSD Scratch drives and SSD OS drives were used properly as well to attempt to not bump into any IO bottlenecks.
WinRAR
In our WinRAR test, the X470 Gaming Pro processed 801MB in our minute-long test.
POV-Ray
Here we see a result of 17.17 seconds.
CHAOSGROUP V-Ray
In this test our MSI X470 Gaming Pro 12,155 ksamples. This is right where I would expect our MSI X470 Gaming Pro based test system to rank as core count makes a big difference here.
Cinebench R20 – Multi-Thread
In our first Cinebench test, the MSI X470 Gaming Pro achieved a score of 4118. The core and thread advantage AMD has in this test is staggering. Obviously, our Ryzen 2700X doesn’t compete well with even the weakest Threadripper CPU, but for the money you can’t beat the 2700X until the 3000 series is released.
Cinebench R20 – Single Thread
In the single thread tests, Intel’s i5 9600K has a distinct advantage at 5.0GHz. However, our MSI X470 Gaming Pro does a good job here and our Ryzen 2700X achievs a score of 432 which isn’t bad.
Blender
The MSI X470 Gaming Pro completed the test in 18.48 seconds. Unlike the previous test, core count is everything.
Gooseberry
In our second Blender based test, the MSI X470 Gaming Pro finished in 44.76 seconds.