GIMP Image Editing

Website: GUN Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)


Over the series of runs, both boards perform identically down to the half second in image editing.

Handbrake H.264 Encoding

Website: HandBrake
Our test uses Handbrake - an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multi-threaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows - to encode a high resolution MPEG-2 video using the H.264 codec. This primarily tests multi-threaded CPU and memory subsystem performance.


The MSI squeezes a slight 25 second lead on average in multi-threaded video encoding - somewhat surprisingly given the slightly improved raw memory bandwidth on the Asus.

Multitasking Performance

Website: MPC-HC
Website: 7Zip


In multitasking performance, there's a fractional advantage for the Asus on average, but it doesn't equate to anything even remotely noticeable in the real world.