MSI X99A Workstation Motherboard Review

Maxon Cinebench R15

CINEBENCH R15 is a cross-platform testing suite that measures hardware performance and is the de facto standard benchmarking tool for leading companies and trade journals for conducting real-world hardware performance tests. With the new Release 15, systems with up to 256 threads can be tested.

CINEBENCH is available for both Windows and OS X and is used by almost all hardware manufacturers and trade journals for comparing CPUs and graphics cards.

Unsurprisingly, although the six cores running at 4.4GHz in the PC Specialist system provide great rendering performance, the ten cores running at 2.4GHz in the MSI X99A Workstation's Xeon are better. The ten-core Broadwell-E Core i7-6950X that this board also supports would certainly blow either out of the water, however.

The Maxon Cinebench R15 OpenGL test is a little sensitive to CPU clock speed, so our MSI setup has fallen behind here. The Maxwell-based Quadro M5000 is also strangely disadvantaged in this test, but we have seen this result before with other Quadro M cards, so this is nothing to be concerned about.

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