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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 ourreviewers.
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Products with outstanding quality
and performance forthe money
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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.
Yo u’ll want at least 30fps for
smooth racing.
TOMB RAIDER
With the ultra-demanding
Super-Sampling Anti-Aliasing
(SSAA)enabled, 2013’s To mb 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 tocompare PCs and laptops, no matterwhich
operating systemtheyrun. It’s designed totest each computer toits limit, using a
combination ofintensive image-editing, video-encoding and multitasking tests.
Weran the tests on our reference PC, which has an Intel Core i5-4670K processor,
8GB ofDDR3 RAMand an AMD Radeon R7 260X graphics card. Wenormalised our
results so this PC had ascore of100.Thismakes it easy todraw comparisons between
test systems.
The resulting overall score is shown at the bottomofevery PC and laptop review.
As we use the same tests in our standalone and group test reviews, you can compare
the performance ofany computer,whether it’s ahybrid, laptop or desktop,fromboth
sections ofthe magazine.
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