Driver Notes
- All AMD GPUs were benchmarked with the public Adrenalin 22.9.1 driver.
- All Nvidia GPUs were benchmarked with the 516.94 driver.
- All Intel GPUs were benchmarked with the 101.3433 driver supplied to press.
Test System:
We test using ta 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 22H2
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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
- Gigabyte RX 6600 XT Gaming OC Pro 8GB
- Gigabyte RX 6600 Eagle 8GB
- ASUS RTX 3080 TUF Gaming 10GB
- Nvidia RTX 3070 FE 8GB
- Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti FE 8GB
- Palit RTX 3060 StormX 12GB
- Nvidia RTX 2060 FE 6GB
All cards were tested at reference specifications.
Software and Games List
- 3DMark Fire Strike & Fire Strike Ultra (DX11 Synthetic)
- 3DMark Time Spy (DX12 Synthetic)
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla (DX12)
- Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12)
- Days Gone (DX11)
- Dying Light 2 (DX12)
- Far Cry 6 (DX12)
- Forza Horizon 5 (DX12)
- God of War (DX11)
- Horizon Zero Dawn (DX12)
- Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered (DX12)
- Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (DXR)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (DX12)
- Resident Evil Village (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.