MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium Review

Written by Antony Leather

January 12, 2017 | 12:46

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Terragen 4

Website: Terragen 4

MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium Review MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium Review - Rendering Performance

Planetside Software’s Terragen 4 is a highly realistic landscape generator used to create background images in films and games such as Star Trek: Nemesis, Stealth and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Our script renders a single frame of a snowy mountain scene at 640 x 480 on all the available CPU execution units.

Terragen 4

Snowy scene render time

  • Asus ROG Strix Z270F Gaming (4.2GHz/5GHz)
  • Gigabyte Aorus Z270X-Gaming 7 (4.2GHz/5GHz)
  • MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium (4.2GHz/5GHz)
  • MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon (4.2GHz/5GHz)
    • 214
    • 194
    • 215
    • 195
    • 215
    • 198
    • 216
    • 195
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  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Cinebench R15 64-bit

Website: www.maxon.net

MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium Review MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium Review - Rendering Performance

Cinebench uses Maxon's Cinema 4D engine to render a photo-realistic scene of some shiny balls and weird things (we miss the motorbike). The scene is highly complex, with reflections, ambient occlusion and procedural shaders, so it gives a CPU a tough workout.

As Cinema 4D is a real-world application - used on films such as Spider-Man and Star Wars - Cinebench can be viewed as a real-world benchmark.

Cinebench R15

64-bit, CPU test

  • MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium (4.2GHz/5GHz)
  • Asus ROG Strix Z270F Gaming (4.2GHz/5GHz)
  • Gigabyte Aorus Z270X-Gaming 7 (4.2GHz/5GHz)
  • MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon (4.2GHz/5GHz)
    • 999
    • 1065
    • 996
    • 1095
    • 994
    • 1089
    • 991
    • 1082
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  • Stock
  • Overclocked

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