Subsystem Testing
M.2 Performance
In these tests, we can see the Corsair MP600 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD is performing just like it should be based on the specifications provided by the manufacturer. Unlike mechanical drives, the performance is much more consistent between motherboards ensuring there are no weird design elements or firmware problems that interfere with performance on this motherboard. In other words, I would look at these results as more of a function check rather than something you would look at between motherboards in search of a performance metric.
DPC Latency
Unfortunately, as you can see DPC latency is abysmal according to the tests. Whenever I see horrendous DPC latency issues, we check to ensure that we aren’t seeing actual problems in video and audio playback. Be it gaming, watching videos, streaming audio, or video, I didn’t see any actual audio dropouts or unsynchronized audio playback. I’m unsure why the most recent crop of motherboards have all tested badly, and it might simply be the benchmark itself reporting the results incorrectly. As you can see, it’s beyond the realm of where it should be according to the application.
Memory Bandwidth
In the Sandra memory bandwidth test, we naturally see a huge advantage for the DDR5 motherboards. The DDR4 board is really only there for reference as it simply can’t compete here. We haven’t tested a lot of DDR5 motherboards, especially not at this price point. Because the motherboard was able to run higher memory speeds more consistently, the MSI Z790-P PRO WiFi edged out the older ROG Z690 APEX.
AIDA64 Memory Read
As expected, we saw a result of 93,707MB/s using the MSI default values for our RAM. At DDR5 6000MHz the lower result of 93,430MB/s is within a reasonable margin of error. Essentially, for all practical purposes running Intel defaults or MSI’s default values makes no difference in this test.
AIDA64 Memory Write
In our AIDA64 memory write test we see a virtually insignificant difference between running at Intel default settings for power and CPU settings versus MSI’s default values. The APEX board with its DDR5 5600MHz memory isn’t really all that far behind. Meanwhile, the DDR4 board is way at the bottom. Naturally, this is to be expected.
AIDA64 Memory Copy
The results between the Intel and MSI settings for the Z790-P PRO WiFi are even closer in this test. The difference is within a margin of error for the test software itself. The APEX board keeps up fairly well here once again but it’s noticeably slower. The DDR4-based GIGABYTE Z690 GAMING X lags the pack which is no surprise.