Driver Notes
- All AMD GPUs were benchmarked with the public Adrenalin 22.3.1 driver.
- All Nvidia GPUs (except RTX 3090 Ti) were benchmarked with the 511.79 driver.
- RTX 3090 Ti was benchmarked with the 512.16 driver supplied to press.
Test System:
We test using the a custom built system powered by MSI, based on Intel’s Alder Lake platform. You can read more about this system HERE and check out MSI on the CCL webstore HERE.
CPU |
Intel Core i9-12900K
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Motherboard |
MSI MEG Z690 Unify
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Memory |
32GB (2x16GB) ADATA XPG Lancer DDR5 6000MHz
CL 40-40-40
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Graphics Card |
Varies
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SSD |
2TB MSI Spatium M480
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Chassis | MSI MPG Velox 100P Airflow |
CPU Cooler |
MSI MEG CoreLiquid S360
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Power Supply |
Corsair 1200W HX Series Modular 80 Plus Platinum
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Operating System |
Windows 11 Pro 21H2
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Monitor |
MSI Optix MPG321UR-QD
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Resizable BAR |
Enabled for all supported GPUs
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Comparison Graphics Cards List
- AMD RX 6800 XT 16GB
- AMD RX 6900 XT 16GB
- ASUS RTX 3080 TUF Gaming 10GB
- Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti FE 12GB
- Gigabyte RTX 3090 Eagle 24GB
- MSI RTX 3090 Ti Suprim X 24GB
- Palit RTX 3090 Ti GameRock OC 24GB
Software and Games List
- 3DMark Fire Strike & Fire Strike Ultra (DX11 Synthetic)
- 3DMark Time Spy (DX12 Synthetic)
- Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12)
- F1 2021 (DX12)
- Far Cry 6 (DX12)
- Horizon Zero Dawn (DX12)
- Total War: Warhammer III (DX11)
We run each benchmark/game three times, and present mean averages in our graphs. We use FrameView to measure average frame rates as well as 1% low values across our three runs.