MSI X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC Review

CPU & GPU Performance

Cinebench

When it comes to performing

heavy-duty tasks such as rendering, more cores is the key to victory. Immediate we see the Threadripper CPU absolutely slaughter anything we’ve ever tested. Obviously, the X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC is not holding things up one bit.

The same is true here, with the overclock holding nicely and giving the score a nice bump.

WPrime

Threadripper gives us our fastest WPrime score to date, albeit only at 1024M. The Gaming Pro Carbon is doing a great job so far.

Again, solid overclocking, bringing a small improvement to the overall scores.

3DMark

Our first gaming benchmark may be synthetic, but it shows the X399 chipset is competitive. Not as fast as the X299 offerings, but while this is a gaming board, the Threadripper is not really a gaming chip either; what a puzzling combination.

Another solid score here, nothing record-breaking but competitive for sure. Overclocking has certainly improved the score though, so the motherboard is holding up nicely.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided 

Discrete GPU benchmarks are giving me confidence too. While nowhere near the top of the chart, the TR4 chip, and the motherboard are within the right range, so PCIe throughput clearly isn’t an issue.

Overclocking did improve PCIe performance, bringing us up to a respectable 65.2FPS.

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Again, competitive scores at 123.59FPs, putting it into the higher end hardware zone.

Good results from overclocking too, bringing it just 0.24fps away from the Gigabyte AORUS Gaming 9 X299.