Testing and Performance
In our testing we used Blender and Cinebench to check the components were working correctly and to stress the cooling system fully however the results we publish below are all about gaming. This is, after all, a review of the Fnatic Gaming PC but if you want to learn more about the CPU we suggest you check out Luke’s launch review of the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X.
To give you the correct context, the PC Specialist Fnatic ran at a sustained 4.15GHz on all cores and delivered a score of 2,062 in Cinebench R15 so we are confident the PC on test here is exactly comparable with Luke’s extensive testing.
For gaming and graphics testing I plugged the Fnatic scores into some of Dominic’s previous test results which might cause some minor confusion. Dominic’s test system for graphics cards uses:
- Intel Core i7-8700K at 5.0GHz
- Asus ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming
- 16GB Team Group Dark Hawk DDR4-3200MHz dual channel
If you check back to my own review of the Sapphire RX 5700 XT Nitro+ you will see I used a different system built around:
- Intel Core i7-7820X at 4.6GHz
- Gigabyte X299 Aorus Master
- 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR4-3200Mhz quad channel
That is quite a variety of hardware but you will see from our results that the performance of each of the graphics cards is consistent from one platform to another, once you make allowances for the variation in graphics drivers.
In the synthetic 3D Mark tests the reference RX 5700 XT graphics card delivers solid performance that bodes well for our games testing.