Test Rig and Procedures
Test System
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme – Live Pricing
Also used MSI MEG Z690I UNIFY Gaming Motherboard – Live Pricing
Cooling: Corsair iCUE H100i ELITE LCD Liquid CPU Cooler - Live Pricing
Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste - Live Pricing
Memory: Crucial 32GB Kit (2 x 16GB) DDR5-4800 UDIMM– Live Pricing
Storage: Sabrent Rocket Q4 2TB – Live Pricing
Video Card: Nvidia RTX 3070 FE - Live Pricing
Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 - Live Pricing
Case: Primochill Wetbench - Live Pricing
OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit - Live Pricing
Here are the GPUz screenshots from our testing as well. Our Z690 Extreme died at the end of testing the 13900K and I had to switch over to the smaller ITX Z690I UNIFY for the 13600K. Both were tested with the XMP turned on for the memory, PL1/PL2 settings as well as CPU amperage limits set to Intel’s recommendations (PL1/2 set to 181 on the 13600K and 253 for the 13900K and CPU amps set to 307 for the 13900K and 200 for the 13600K. Both boards had their BIOS updated to the latest at the time of testing to be able to support the new CPUs.
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CPU Testing Procedures+BB3:C31 |
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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, 1080p, high detail setting, RTX/DLSS Off |
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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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Far Cry 6 |
1080p with High Detail setting using the built-in benchmark |
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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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Crossmark |
Crossmark overall score |
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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 10 |
CPU Mark Score |
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PCMark 10 |
Normal test ran, not the express or extended |
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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 |
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V-Ray Benchmark 1.0.8 |
CPU Benchmark time used as the score |
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V-Ray Benchmark 5.0.2 |
vsamples score |
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POV-Ray |
Using built-in benchmark. Settings are all set to the "Standard Benchmark Switches" listed on http://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 http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html |
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Blender |
Using new official benchmark using 3.1.0 |
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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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Borderlands 3 |
In-Game benchmark, 1080p, Low detail preset |
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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, RTX/DLSS off |
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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 |
