PCMark Vantage
PCMark VantageFuturemark’s newest benchmark suite, PCMark Vantage, was released earlier this year we published an initial article on the new software that looked at some CPU performance as well as providing overviews for all the individual testing suites it uses and what kind of applications they emulate. The new Vantage software takes a much more real-world user-scenario approach to testing that previous PCMark software and as such deserves more time our benchmark analysis.
If you haven’t yet done so, I would HIGHLY recommend you head over to my previous article that has a lot of detail on what these PCMark Vantage tests actually do. That will give you a better understanding of the results to aid in your potential purchasing decision.
Now we are getting somewhere. The GA-X58-UD5 scores more than 1,000 points higher than its MSI counterpart for its overall score. I also noticed it scored well in the productivity and TV/movies categories. This means that consumers who want to use it for day-to-day applications like Word, Outlook, and even Photoshop should notice a nice performance boost from having this board in their PCs.