Test Rig and Procedures
Test System (with affiliate links)
Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus XIII Hero
Cooling: Corsair H100i RGB Platinum
Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste
Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 16GB 3000 MHz
Storage: WD Black SN750 1TB
Video Card: Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti
Power Supply: Corsair TX750M
Case: Dimastech Test Bench
(it should also be noted that all testing was done with MCE or Multi-Core Enhancement turned off)
CPU Testing Procedures |
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Team Fortress 2 |
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Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation |
1080p – Standard quality setting, DX12, built-in benchmark on the CPU-focused setting |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands |
Built-in Benchmark, 1080p, High detail setting |
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided |
1080p – Ultra Setting and Medium Setting – DX11 – Vsync Turned off using the built-in benchmark |
Far Cry 5 |
1080p with High Detail setting using the built-in benchmark |
3DMark Fire Strike |
Physics Score – Performance benchmark |
Dolphin 5.0 Benchmark |
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Jetstream |
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7-Zip |
Built-in benchmark set to 32MB, run 4 or more passes. Combined MIPS, Compressing, and Decompressing scores all used. Just the Current result, not the resulting |
AIDA64 |
Memory, Cache, and FLOPS testing done with built-in GPGPU and Memory benchmarks |
wPrime |
1024M |
X264 HD Benchmark |
Both version 4.0 and 5.0.1. Pass 1 and Pass 2 are run on 5.0.1 and just pass one on 4.0 |
Cinebench R15 |
CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
Cinebench R20 |
CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
CPUz |
CPUz's built-in benchmark, both single and multi-core scores |
Passmark 9 |
CPU Mark Score |
PCMark 10 |
Normal test ran, not the express or extended |
V-Ray |
CPU Benchmark time used as the score |
POV-Ray |
Using built-in benchmark. Settings are all set to the "Standard Benchmark Switches" listed on https://www.povray.org/download/benchmark.php |
Handbrake |
Tested using 2d 4k 60 FPS version, resized using the Fast 1080p30 preset, average FPS used. Here is the file download location https://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html |
Blender |
Using new official benchmark on the Quick Benchmark setting that tests the BMW27 test and Classroom. Timed together |
Temps |
Aida64 stability test to load and to record temperature readings |
Power Usage |
Idle and load testing using a Kill-A-Watt and wPrime to put the CPU under load |
Onboard Testing Procedures |
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Bioshock Infinite |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting at 1080p |
Tomb Raider |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting at 1080p |
Hitman: Absolution |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting at 1080p |
Far Cry 5 |
1080p, Lowest Detail setting, In game benchmark |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider |
1080p, Low Detail setting, In game benchmark |
Team Fortress 2 |
1080p – high, very high, high, reflect world, high, enabled, 8x msaa, x16, multicore on. https://bit.ly/2vOebin |
Unigine Superposition |
720p Low and 1080p Medium settings |
Cinebench R15 |
OpenGL benchmark |
3DMark Fire Strike |
Performance setting – GPU Score |
3DMark Time Spy |
GPU Score |