Application Benchmarks
Memory Bandwidth
Now we are going to start some application benchmarks on this motherboard. To start us out, we are going to use Aida64 and take a look at some different memory bandwidths. These first tests were running the memory at 3200MHz.
As we can see above, at a memory default speed of 3200 we hit 44,503 MB/s speed. Now take a look at the write speed we see we hit 45,903 MB/s. As we can see, once again, the MSI motherboard pulled ahead of the Gigabyte B550 board. Naturally, the write speeds will be slower than read speeds.
Well, from the above graph, we see these two boards pretty much ran neck to neck in the Aida64 Write category. Nonetheless, these are pretty good numbers!
When we ran the PCMark 10 benchmark we can see that this board came in at 6304 which again, if you look at TheFPSReview B550 motherboard review is pretty much right in line with the others we have reviewed. However, this time we see the MSI board fall behind our previously reviewed Gigabyte board.
Cinebench R23
Previous Cinebench tests were run with Cinebench R20, however, they have released the new version R23. So, this will, once again, be a single graph due to not reviewing previous motherboards on the new Cinebench R23.
The Cinebench R23 result was set with the CPU at the default setting of 3600. As we can see from the above graph, the result is a lot different from the previous R20 version. If you have looked at Cinebench R20 results from other boards, this is a whole new ball game.
Blender Benchmark
We ran this Blender Benchmark “Classroom” at the default motherboard settings which included the CPU at 3600 and RAM at 3200. This system completed the benchmark in 8 minutes and 10 seconds. Again, the MSI falls short against the Gigabyte board. This board was almost 3 minutes longer than the Gigabyte.
3DMark Timespy
The 3DMark Timespy result is 6393, since this is very GPU dependent comparing it with other reviews other than the Gigabyte, which we used the same video card would not be a fair comparison. As we can see, the MSI board just edged past the Gigabyte motherboard. Is that due to better memory management with the board? Who’s to say.