These results should be music to the ears of content creators, engineers,
animators, and other professionals with CPU-heavy workloads, but they also
demonstrate why I was cautioning choosing this chip for a gaming-only PC.
These results are amazing, yes, but if you’re not going to be doing any of these
tasks on your desktop, it’s money you don’t need to spend. 3D-based work and
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SYNTHETIC GRAPHICS TESTS
UL’s 3DMark test suite measures relative graphics muscle by rendering
sequences of highly detailed, gaming-style 3D graphics that emphasize particles
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but Sky Diver is more suited to laptops and midrange PCs, while Fire Strike is
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3DMark, the Superposition test renders and pans through a detailed 3D scene
and measures how the system copes. In this case, it’s rendered in the company’s
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3DMark, for a second opinion on the machine’s graphical prowess.
The Aurora R10’s dominance on the CPU tests starts to disappear here, though
the results are still very good. As stated above, your graphics card is much more
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speed doesn’t disappear, and the Aurora R10 is still at or near the top of the
charts. These results held to a close pattern to the CPU tests, but the gaming
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