Application Benchmarks
We are going to start with application and system benchmarks for comparisons, these are the kind of benchmarks that provide an overall performance score to compare with. These are also benchmarks that may either test the system as a whole, including many different real-world workloads, or stress the CPU in ways real-world everyday workloads are performed to produce a performance result.
Geekbench 5
Geekbench 5.1.1 was used for this test. It is a multi-platform test that is comparable across different CPU architectures.
Single Core
This is one case where the overclocked result was actually slower than the stock clocks. This is because the Intel CPU’s are now boosting and behaving more like AMD’s. That is, the single-core or lightly threaded boost clocks are much higher than our all core overclock leading to better results. In either case, the MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi is faster than the older Maximus XI APEX and the Prime X570 with their respective CPUs.
Multi-Core Score
Here, it seems evident that Intel’s clock speed advantage overcomes its core deficiencies despite this being a multi-threaded test.
AIDA64 CPU Queen
AIDA64’s CPU Queen test tests branch prediction, which obviously favors Intel here.