MSI B350 Tomahawk Review

Written by Antony Leather

June 8, 2017 | 13:41

Tags: #am4 #b350 #best-am4-board #best-b350-board #best-ryzen-board #best-x370-board #ryzen #x370

Companies: #amd #msi

HandBrake Video Transcode


MSI B350 Tomahawk Review With AGESA 1006 BIOS Update MSI B350 Tomahawk Review - Video Encoding and Photo Editing
We've added HandBrake to our list of media creation tests, as PCMark 8's video encoding test isn't able to make use of more than two threads and as such doesn't give a true representation of video encoding/editing workloads and performance. As this task is a key reason for opting for a powerful system, we've added a simple encoding test using the freely available HandBrake software, which converts a 60-second, 400MB, 4K, MKV video sample to a high quality 1080p MP4 file using the available presets. Our results show much better scaling with increasing threads, which is more indicative of high-performance video editing suites, albeit without any GPU acceleration.

HandBrake Video Transcoding

4K MKV to high quality 1080p MP4 encode

  • MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium (3GHz/4GHz)
  • Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3 (3GHz/4.025GHz)
  • Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming (3GHz/4GHz)
  • Asus Prime X370-Pro (3GHz/4.025GHz)
  • Gigabyte Aorus AX370-Gaming 5 (3GHz/4.025GHz)
  • MSI B350 Tomahawk
  • Asus Crosshair VI Hero (3GHz/4.05GHz)
    • 91
    • 77
    • 91
    • 78
    • 91
    • 78
    • 92
    • 78
    • 92
    • 79
    • 93
    • 77
    • 99
    • 75
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  • Stock
  • Overclocked


PCMark 8 Photo Editing V2


MSI B350 Tomahawk Review With AGESA 1006 BIOS Update MSI B350 Tomahawk Review - Video Encoding and Photo Editing

This workload involves making a series of adjustments to a set of photographs using ImageMagik - an open-source image processing library - to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma. When a favourable balance is found, the changes are then applied to the rest of the images in the set. TIFF files up to 67MB in size are used.

PCMark 8 Photo Editing V2

Load image matrix + adjusting times

  • MSI B350 Tomahawk (3GHz/4GHz)
  • Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming (3GHz/4GHz)
  • MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium (3GHz/4GHz)
  • Asus Prime X370-Pro (3GHz/4.025GHz)
  • Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3 (3GHz/4.025GHz)
  • Gigabyte Aorus AX370-Gaming 5 (3GHz/4.025GHz)
  • Asus Crosshair VI Hero (3GHz/4.05GHz)
    • 28
    • 24
    • 28
    • 24
    • 28
    • 24
    • 28
    • 24
    • 28
    • 24
    • 28
    • 24
    • 30
    • 23
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  • Stock
  • Overclocked

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