Test Rig and Procedures
Test System
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme – Live Pricing
Cooling: Corsair iCUE H100i ELITE LCD Liquid CPU Cooler - Live Pricing
Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste - Live Pricing
Memory: Micron Pre Launch DDR5 2x32GB – Live Pricing
Storage: Sabrent Rocket Q4 2TB – Live Pricing
Video Card: Nvidia RTX 3070 FE - Live Pricing
Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 - Live Pricing
Case: Dimastech Test Bench - Live Pricing
OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit - Live Pricing
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CPU Testing Procedures |
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Team Fortress 2 |
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands |
Built-in Benchmark, 1080p, High detail setting |
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Dirt 5 |
Built-in benchmark, running at 1080p on all three resolution settings, V-Sync is turned off, dynamic resolution is turned off, and on the low detail setting |
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Far Cry 5 |
1080p with High Detail setting using the built-in benchmark |
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider |
Built in benchmark, gtx 1080Ti, 1080p, high detail setting |
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Metro Exodus |
Default benchmark low setting |
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Watch Dogs Legion |
1080p, dx12, medium detail |
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Borderlands 3 |
Built-in benchmark. fullscreen, 1080p, medium quality, dx11 |
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Dolphin 5.0 Benchmark |
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3DMark |
Fire Strike - Physics Score – Performance benchmark, Time Spy - CPU Score, and CPU Profile test |
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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 |
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Jetstream |
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wPrime |
1024M |
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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 |
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Cinebench R15 |
CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
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Cinebench R20 |
CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
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Cinebench R23 |
CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
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CPUz |
CPUz's built-in benchmark, both single and multi-core scores |
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Passmark 9 |
CPU Mark Score |
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Passmark 10 |
CPU Mark Score |
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PCMark 10 |
Normal test ran, not the express or extended |
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V-Ray |
CPU Benchmark time used as the score |
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POV-Ray |
Using built-in benchmark. Settings are all set to the "Standard Benchmark Switches" listed on https://www.povray.org/download/benchmark.php |
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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 |
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Blender |
Using new official benchmark using 2.90 and only testing BMW and Classroom and combining the total time |
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AIDA64 |
Memory, Cache, and FLOPS testing done with built-in GPGPU and Memory benchmarks |
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Temps |
Aida64 FPU stability test to load and to record temperature readings |
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Power Usage |
Idle and load testing using a Kill-A-Watt and wPrime to put the CPU under load and again with the AIDA64 FPU CPU workload |
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Onboard Testing Procedures |
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Bioshock Infinite |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting at 1080p |
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Tomb Raider |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting at 1080p |
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Hitman: Absolution |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting at 1080p |
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Far Cry 5 |
1080p, Lowest Detail setting, In game benchmark |
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider |
1080p, Low Detail setting, In game benchmark |
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Team Fortress 2 |
1080p – high, very high, high, reflect world, high, enabled, 8x msaa, x16, multicore on. https://bit.ly/2vOebin |
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Unigine Superposition |
720p Low and 1080p Medium settings |
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Cinebench R15 |
OpenGL benchmark |
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3DMark Fire Strike |
Performance setting – GPU Score |
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3DMark Time Spy |
GPU Score |
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands |
Built-in Benchmark, 1080p, Low detail setting |
