Motherboard Performance
Testing the MSI B850 GAMING PLUS WiFi PZ was accomplished using the benchmarks below. The following components were used: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, Corsair Vengeance DDR5 32GB at 6000MT/s (CMH32G5M2D6000C36), MSI Spatium M580 Gen5 NVME, and the ASRock RX 7600 XT Steel Legend graphics card. Comparison results are discussed from the recent reviews of the ASRock Phantom Gaming B850 RIPTIDE WiFi and ASRock B850 Steel Legend WiFi as those boards are equally outfitted. Below you will find a gallery of result screenshots from our testing protocol and a brief discussion of the results compared to other motherboards with the same or similar components.
In synthetic benchmarks, we have very similar results compared to our two other B850 motherboards. CrystalDisk performance was nearly identical to that of AIDA64. PCMark10 and 3DMark scores were likewise nearly identical across the board. We found in Blender, CinebenchR23, and VRay that the results were identical to the comparison B850 motherboards.
VRM Temperature
In this test, we run Cinebench R23 multicore for 20 minutes minimum and then record the temperatures across the heatsinks using HWInfo64. On the MSI B850 GAMING PLUS WiFi PZ, we see CPU temperature of 81.9C °C and clock speeds at 5332MHz. The MOS temperature was 52.5C °C maximum. This temperature is about 15 °C greater than our comparison boards; however, we encountered no issues with the testing.