1. Introduction2. Meet the Sparkle Arc A580 Orc3. Testing Methodology4. Reference vs Factory Overclocked Scaling5. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy6. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing7. Assassin's Creed Valhalla8. Cyberpunk 20779. Forza Horizon 510. God of War11. Horizon Zero Dawn12. The Last of Us Part 113. A Plague Tale: Requiem14. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart15. Red Dead Redemption 216. Resident Evil 417. Returnal18. Total War: Warhammer III19. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)20. Cost Per Frame Analysis21. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207722. Ray Tracing: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart23. Ray Tracing: Returnal24. Ray Tracing: Shadow of the Tomb Raider25. Clock Speed26. GPU Temperatures27. Acoustics28. Power Draw: 1080p29. Power Draw: 1440p30. Performance per Watt: 1080p31. Performance per Watt: 1440p32. Total System Power Draw33. Closing Thoughts34. View All Pages

Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark for modern gaming PCs. Its ambitious real-time graphics are rendered with detail and complexity far beyond other DirectX 11 benchmarks and games. Fire Strike includes two graphics tests, a physics test and a combined test that stresses the CPU and GPU. (UL).

3DMark Time Spy is a DirectX 12 benchmark test for Windows 10 gaming PCs. Time Spy is one of the first DirectX 12 apps to be built the right way from the ground up to fully realize the performance gains that the new API offers. With its pure DirectX 12 engine, which supports new API features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading, Time Spy is the ideal test for benchmarking the latest graphics cards. (UL).

We get our first look at performance indicators in 3DMark, where the A580 scales very well – it's 20% faster than the RX 6600 in Fire Strike, but we'll have to see if that plays out in our game benchmarks.

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