REAL-WORLD GAMING TESTS
The synthetic tests are helpful for measuring general 3D
aptitude, but it’s hard to beat full video games for
judging gaming performance. Far Cry 5 and Rise of the
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built-in benchmarks that illustrate how a system
handles real-world video games at various settings.
These are run on the maximum graphics-quality presets
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determine the sweet spot of visuals and smooth
performance for a given system. The results are also
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Simply put, the Aurora R10 is not the machine to beat
on these tests. The Omen Obelisk and the Raptor Z55
outperformed it on Far Cry 5, and the latter topped the
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common to them, it comes down to either thermals or
how the processor handles gaming. It could be related
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while gaming, and the motherboard could be holding it
back. The frame rates recorded for the standalone
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were higher than the ones here, and the superior
motherboard in the testbed may be contributing to that.
The small single-fan radiator is perhaps not keeping the
CPU from throttling quite as much as a larger model
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advantages do not translate directly into higher frame
rates in all cases. Intel may have a leg up here in
gaming, as it has for a while, but it could just be how
these borderline workstation chips interact with
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The small
single-fan
radiator is
perhaps not
keeping the CPU
from throttling
quite as much as
a larger model
might.