MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi Motherboard Review

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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

MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi Motherboard Geekbench

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

MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi Motherboard Geekbench

Here, it seems evident that Intel’s clock speed advantage overcomes its core deficiencies despite this being a multi-threaded test.

AIDA64 CPU Queen

MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi Motherboard Aida64 Benchmark

AIDA64’s CPU Queen test tests branch prediction, which obviously favors Intel here.

Dan Dobrowolski
Dan has been writing motherboard reviews for the past 15 years, with the first decade or so writing for [H}ard|OCP. Dan brings his depth of knowledge about motherboards and their components to his reviews here at The FPS Review to help you select the best one for your needs.

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