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products out of five:
BUSINESSBUY
The very best products forwork
win our Business Buy award.
RECOMMENDED
Products that don’t quitequalify
foraBest Buy award but are still
highly rated by our reviewers.
BESTBUY
Products with outstanding quality
and performance forthe money
win our Best Buy award.
The best products can win
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BENCHMARKS RATINGS&AWARDS
DIRTSHOWDOWN
Dirt Showdown is acracking racing
game that makes good use of
DirectX 11’s fancy graphical effects.
You’ll want at least 30fps for
smooth racing.
TOMB RAIDER
With the ultra-demanding
Super-Sampling Anti-Aliasing
(SSAA)enabled, 2013’s Tomb Raider
reboot is agreat indicator of
mid-range performance.
METRO: LAST
LIGHT REDUX
Our most demanding graphics test
uses tessellation, SSAA and massive
textures to give even high-end cards
athorough workout.
SHOPPERBENCHMARKS
Our benchmark suiteuses open-source software that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux
systems. This lets us use objective results to compare PCs and laptops, no matter which
operating systemtheyrun. It’s designed to test each computer to its limit, using a
combination of intensive image-editing, video-encoding and multitasking tests.
We ran the testsonour reference PC, which has an Intel Core i5-4670K processor,
8GB of DDR3 RAMand an AMDRadeon R7 260X graphics card. We normalised our
results so this PC had ascore of 100. This makes it easy to drawcomparisons between
test systems.
The resulting overall score is shown at the bottomof every PC and laptop review.
As we use the same testsinour standalone andgroup test reviews, you can compare
the performance of any computer,whetherit’s ahybrid, laptop or desktop,fromboth
sections of the magazine.
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