Test Rig and Procedures
Test System
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero WiFi – Live Pricing
Cooling: Corsair iCUE H100i ELITE LCD Liquid CPU Cooler - Live Pricing
Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste - Live Pricing
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Royal 3600MHz 16-16-16-36 – Live Pricing
Storage: Corsair MP600 2TB– Live Pricing
Video Card: Nvidia RTX 3070 FE - Live Pricing
Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 - Live Pricing
Case: Primochill Wetbench - Live Pricing
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit - Live Pricing
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 |
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 |
Far Cry 5 |
1080p with High Detail setting using built-in benchmark |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider |
Built in benchmark, gtx 1080Ti, 1080p, high detail setting |
Metro Exodus |
Default benchmark low setting |
Watch Dogs Legion |
1080p, dx12, medium detail |
Borderlands 3 |
Built-in benchmark. fullscreen, 1080p, medium quality, dx11 |
Dolphin 5.0 Benchmark |
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3DMark |
Fire Strike - Physics Score – Performance benchmark, Time Spy - CPU Score, and CPU Profile test |
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 |
Jetstream |
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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) |
Cinebench R23 |
CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
CPUz |
CPUz's built in benchmark, both single and multi-core scores |
Passmark 9 |
CPU Mark Score |
Passmark 10 |
CPU Mark Score |
PCMark 10 |
Normal test ran, not the express or extended |
Procyon |
Office productivity benchmark is done with the current Microsoft Office 365, Photo Editing Benchmark is done with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic. Video Editing Benchmark uses Adobe Premiere Pro. All adobe products are running on the latest version at the time of testing |
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 http://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 http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html |
Blender |
Using new official benchmark using 3.1.0 |
AIDA64 |
Memory, Cache, and FLOPS testing done with built-in GPGPU and Memory benchmarks |
Temps |
Aida64 FPU 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 and again with the AIDA64 FPU CPU workload |