Test Rig and Procedures
Test System
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero - Live Pricing
Cooling: Enermax LIQMAXFLO 360mm Liquid CPU Cooler - Live Pricing
Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste - Live Pricing
Memory: G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB Series (2x16GB) 6000MT/s CL28-36-36-96 - Live Pricing
Storage: Samsung 990 Pro 1TB - Live Pricing
Video Card: Nvidia RTX 4090 FE - Live Pricing
Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 - Live Pricing
Case: Primochill Wetbench - Live Pricing
OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit - Live Pricing
CPU Testing Procedures |
|
Blender |
Using official benchmark using 3.6, 4.0, and 4.2 |
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 |
Cinebench R20 |
CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
Cinebench R23 |
CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
Cinebench 2024 |
Multi and Single Core tests |
POV-Ray |
Using built-in benchmark. Settings are all set to the "Standard Benchmark Switches" listed on http://www.povray.org/download/benchmark.php |
V-Ray Benchmark 1.0.8 |
CPU Benchmark time used as the score |
V-Ray Benchmark 5.0.2 |
vsamples score |
CPUz |
CPUz's built-in benchmark on 17.01.64 version, both single and multi-core scores |
wPrime |
1024M Setting, core count set to the number of threads the CPU has |
7-Zip |
Built-in benchmark set to 32MB, which runs 10 passes. Combined MIPS, Compressing, and Decompressing scores were all used. Just the Current result, not the resulting |
JetStream 2 - BrowserBench |
Core from website test using Chrome https://browserbench.org/JetStream2.0/ |
Passmark |
CPU Mark Score with Passmark 10 and the newer Passmark Performance Test 11 as well |
Crossmark |
Benchmark from BapCo using Revision 1.2 documenting the overall 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. All products are running on the latest version at the time of testing |
Dolphin 5.0 Benchmark |
This benchmark runs automatically and at the end gives you a time result in seconds https://bit.ly/2dpa9n3 |
3DMark |
Fire Strike - Physics Score – Performance benchmark, Time Spy - CPU Score, and CPU Profile test |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands |
Built-in Benchmark, 1080p, High detail setting |
Team Fortress 2 |
1080p – high, very high, high, reflect world, high, enabled, 8x msaa, x16, multicore on. TF2 version is locked to previous version that supports older replay files currently until this issue is fixed https://bit.ly/2vOebin |
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 medium detail setting |
Far Cry 6 |
1080p with High Detail setting using the built-in benchmark |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider |
Built-in benchmark, 1080p, high detail setting, RTX/DLSS Off |
Metro Exodus |
Default benchmark with High profile which has 1080p and high detail |
Watch Dogs Legion |
Built in benchmark, 1080p, dx12, low detail |
Borderlands 3 |
Built-in benchmark. fullscreen, 1080p, medium quality, dx11 |
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 |
Temps |
Aida64 FPU stability test to load and record temperature readings |
AIDA64 |
Memory, Cache, and FLOPS testing done with built-in GPGPU and Memory benchmarks |
Onboard Testing Procedures |
|
3DMark |
Fire Strike and Time Spy benchmarks GPU score not the overall score |
Unigine Superposition |
720p Low and 1080p Medium settings |
Team Fortress 2 |
1080p – high, very high, high, reflect world, high, enabled, 8x msaa, x16, multicore on. https://bit.ly/2vOebin |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands |
Built-in Benchmark, 1080p, Low detail setting |
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 |
Borderlands 3 |
In-Game benchmark, 1080p, Low detail preset |
Far Cry 5 |
1080p, Lowest Detail setting, In-game benchmark |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider |
1080p, Low Detail setting, In-game benchmark, RTX/DLSS off |