Motherboard Performance
Testing the MSI Pro B850M-A 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 Radeon 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.
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.
We saw in these synthetic benchmarks that the MSI Pro B850M-A WiFi PZ performed almost identically to the two listed B850 motherboards we have tested previously. In CrystalDisk, we see the MSI Spatium records its usual marks for Gen 5 and Gen4. Aida64 memory scores are identical to what we have seen with the 7700X CPU. Blender, VRay and Cinebench R23 all score as they have in the past. Geekbench is relatively new to our lineup, but the score is well within expectations for our test board. The same findings hold true for PCMark10 and 3DMark testing. The MSI Pro B850M-A WiFi PZ ran every benchmark without incident. There were no issues.
VRM Temperature
In this section, we run multicore Cinebench R23 for 20 minutes and then assess the temperature performance using HWInfo64. We can see the maximum CPU temperature registered at 95°C while the VRM temperatures were a cooler 54-57 °C. This result is a bit higher than the other AM5 motherboards we have reviewed, but it may be attributed somewhat to being in an enclosure (despite the front and back of the case being open) rather than an open bench. Nonetheless, there was no issue running the benchmark testing.