MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi Motherboard Review

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Rendering Benchmarks

Here, we are looking at each CPU’s ability to perform rendering and encoding tasks.

Cinebench R20 Multithread

MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi Motherboard Cinebench R20

Intel closes the gap surprisingly well here. The MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi does a good job, despite the obvious advantage the Prime X570 has in this test thanks to the 3900X.

Cinebench R20 Single Thread

MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi Motherboard Cinebench R20

While AMD tends to do better than AMD in the multithreaded test, the single-threaded test is much closer with the stock 10900K system being faster. The 3900X and 10900K overclocked achieve the same result.

Blender Open Data Benchmark

This is the Blender Open Beta Benchmark version 2.04. This Blender Benchmark allows you to download multiple demos for rendering and render up to six of them in sequence. This can take an extremely long time to run all of them. You also have the option of testing different versions of Blender from the same launcher. We chose two of the tests out of the six, which seemed to have a longer run time than the others.

Blender pavilion_barcelona

MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi Motherboard Blender

In this benchmark, The MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi falls a bit short as the 10900K simply can’t compete with AMD’s higher core and thread counts here.

Blender Victor

MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi Motherboard Blender

The lineup looks the same as it was in the above test, albeit with bigger numbers as this test simply takes longer to run. Intel does manage a huge improvement over the 9900K, thanks to the slight core and thread count increase. From the look of things, the clock speeds don’t factor in much at all.

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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