Memory Bandwidth
AIDA64
This program has many tools for determining memory bandwidth as well as various latency values.
Memory Read
In this test, our stock and overclocked results are slightly higher than those of the other test systems with a result of 55,002MB/s overclocked and 48,886MB/s stock.
Memory Write
In the write test, the MSI X570-A PRO achieves a result of 47,395MB/s. This is slightly lower than two of our other test systems, including the ASUS TUF GAMING X570 Plus. When overclocked, the result increased to 53,261MB/s.
Memory Copy
In the memory copy test, the MSI X570-A PRO achieves a result of 55,535MB/s when overclocked. At stock speeds, it achieved a result of 50,006MB/s. It did come in ever so slightly higher than the ASUS Prime X570 at 49,505MB/s.
Sandra Memory Bandwidth
In the Sandra memory test, the MSI X570-A PRO scored a result of 35,78GB/s at stock speeds and 37.89GB/s at DDR4 3600MHz.
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
In the Geekbench test, the scores for the MSI X570-A PRO were 1,273 points at stock speeds and 1,342 points when overclocked. Overclocked, the result is slightly better than our other AMD Ryzen based test systems. At stock speeds, it was the slowest system we tested.
Multi-Core
In the multi-core CPU test, the MSI X570-A PRO achieved a result of 11,101 points when clocked at default settings and 11,424 points when overclocked. Both scores are excellent, beating our other AMD based test systems and even two of the Intel systems. Of course, overclocked, the 12c/16t Ryzen 9 3900X manages a slightly higher score than the 10900K and MSI MPG Z490.
AIDA64 CPU Queen
In the AIDA64 CPU Queen test, we see results of 126,435 points from the stock settings and 126,611 from the overclocked configuration.
SiSoft Sandra
We used SiSoftware Sandra version 2020.5.30.41 for all Sandra testing. The processor arithmetic Dhrystone and Whetstone performance results are represented in GFLOPS.
Dhrystone
In the Sandra Dhrystone test, the MSI X570-A PRO achieved a result of 604.24GFLOPS. When overclocked, the performance increased to 536.12GFLOPS.
Whetstone
In the Sandra Dhrystone test, the MSI X570-A PRO achieved a result of 297.29GFLOPS. When overclocked, the performance increased considerably, achieving a result of 332.52GFLOPS.
wPrime
In the wPrime test, the MSI X570-A PRO completed the test in 55.72 seconds at stock speeds and 54.79 seconds when overclocked. In contrast, the ASUS Prime X570, using the same CPU completed the test in 56.44 seconds.
Rendering Benchmarks
Here, we are looking at each CPU’s ability to perform rendering and encoding tasks.
Cinebench R20 Multithread
In the Cinebench R20 benchmark, they took both of the top spots with scores of 7269 points at stock clocks and 7537 when overclocked. However, the ASUS Prime X570 wasn’t too far behind at 7237 points at stock clocks.
Cinebench R20 Single Thread
In the single-threaded test, we see a different performance delta. That of a falling stone with the MSI X570-A PRO scraping the bottom of the barrel with a score of 490 points. Overclocked, it did much better, albeit only just a little better than the ASUS Prime X570’s score of 526 points.
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
In our first Blender test, the MSI X570-A PRO completed the test in 5.68 minutes at stock speeds and 5.45 minutes when overclocked. This was a good deal faster than the ASUS Prime X570 in both cases.
Blender Victor
In the second Blender test, the MSI X570-A PRO once again takes both of the top spots. 10.87 minutes when overclocked and 10.32 minutes overclocked. This is a rare case where the overclocking hurt performance as we saw a longer completion time when overclocked.
V-Ray Benchmark
V-Ray 4.10.07 was used for this test.
In the V-Ray test, overclocking hurts performance once again as the system scored a result of 20,385 versus 20,904 K Samples at stock speeds.
Handbrake
This is an encoding using the 1080P fast 30 preset. The only changes made to the application were the disabling of GPU acceleration. The video was a 4K video at 4 minutes and 42 seconds in length.
In the Handbrake test, we see a completion time of 2.52 minutes overclocked and 2.68 minutes at stock speeds. Oddly, the ASUS TUF GAMING X570 Plus was a little faster at 2.62 minutes.
POV-Ray 3.7
In the POV-Ray test, the MSI X570-A PRO takes the top two spots once more. Coming in at 41.53 seconds at stock speeds and 40.23 seconds when overclocked. Not much of a gain here either, which is odd given that this test can use 24 threads.