SiSoft Sandra XII Lite – CPU Arithmetic

SiSoft Sandra XII Lite – Memory Bandwidth

SiSoft Sandra XII Lite – Multimedia

While the P45 chipset isn't a huge leap up from the P35, I did expect performance to be on par if not better than the previous generation for the MSI P45 Platinum. That's not to say the scores are bad, but it does trail behind our P35 based comparison boards which seems strange. Still, this is a synthetic test so perhaps our real world tests will show that numbers don't always mean everything.

PiFast

Our P45 Platinum again sits behind the other two boards, although again it is just behind.

CDeX

It would seem that the more mature P35's are quite the performers here, while the MSI P45 Platinum clearly needs some help, perhaps a BIOS update, to help things along.