Driver Notes
- AMD GPUs were benchmarked with the Adrenalin 23.12.1 driver.
- Nvidia GPUs (except RTX 4070 Super/RTX 4070 Ti Super) were benchmarked with the 546.33 driver.
- RTX 4070 Super was benchmarked with the 546.52 driver supplied to press.
- RTX 4070 Ti Super was benchmarked with the 551.15 driver supplied to press.
- RTX 4080 Super was benchmarked with the 551.22 driver supplied to press.
Results are only directly comparable where this exact configuration has been used.
Test System:
We test using a custom built system from PCSpecialist, based on Intel’s Rocket Lake platform. You can read more about this system HERE and configure your own PCSpecialist system HERE.
CPU |
Intel Core i9-13900KS
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Motherboard |
Gigabyte Z790 Gaming X AX
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Memory |
32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5 6000MHz
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Graphics Card |
Varies
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SSD |
4TB Seagate Firecuda 530 Gen 4 PCIe NVMe
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Chassis | Corsair 5000D Airflow Tempered Glass Gaming Case |
CPU Cooler |
Corsair iCUE H150i Elite RGB High Performance CPU Cooler
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Power Supply |
Corsair 1600W Pro Series Titanium AX1600i Digital Modular PSU
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Operating System |
Windows 11 23H2
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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 7900 XTX 24GB
- AMD RX 7900 XT 20GB
- AMD RX 7800 XT 16GB
- Sapphire RX 7700 XT Pulse 12GB
- AMD RX 6700 XT 12GB
- Nvidia RTX 4090 FE 24GB
- Nvidia RTX 4080 Super FE 16GB
- Nvidia RTX 4080 FE 16GB
- Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti Super Aero OC 16GB
- MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super Ventus 3X 16GB
- Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti Gaming 12GB
- Nvidia RTX 4070 FE 12GB
- Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti FE 8GB
- Gigabyte RTX 3080 Eagle 10GB
- Nvidia RTX 3070 FE 8GB
All cards were tested at reference specifications.
Software and Games List
- 3DMark Fire Strike & Fire Strike Ultra (DX11 Synthetic)
- 3DMark Time Spy (DX12 Synthetic)
- 3DMark DirectX Raytracing feature test (DXR Synthetic)
- Alan Wake II (DX12)
- Assassin's Creed Mirage (DX12)
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (DX12)
- Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12)
- F1 23 (DX12)
- Forza Horizon 5 (DX12)
- Hitman 3 (DX12)
- The Last of Us Part 1 (DX12)
- Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered (DX12)
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (DX12)
- Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart (DX12)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (DX12)
- Resident Evil 4 (DX12)
- Returnal (DX12)
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider (DX12)
- Starfield (DX12)
- Total War: Pharaoh (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 (99th percentile) across our three runs.