REVIEWS
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ComputerShopperrates
productsoutoffive:
BUSINESSBUY
The very best products forwork
win our Business Buy award.
RECOMMENDED
Productsthatdon’tquitequalify
foraBestBuyawardbutarestill
highlyratedbyourreviewers.
BESTBUY
Productswithoutstandingquality
andperformanceforthemoney
winourBestBuyaward.
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BENCHMARKS RATINGS&AWARDS
DIRTSHOWDOWN
DirtShowdownisacrackingracing
gamethatmakesgooduseof
DirectX11’sfancygraphicaleffects.
You’llwantatleast30fpsfor
smoothracing.
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
Ourbenchmarksuiteusesopen-sourcesoftwarethatrunsonWindows,macOSandLinux
systems. This lets us use objective results tocompare PCs and laptops, no matter which
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 AMDRadeon R7 260X graphics card. Wenormalised our
results so this PC had ascore of100.Thismakes it easy todrawcomparisons between
test systems.
The resulting overall score is shown at the bottomof every PC and laptop review.
As we use the same tests in our standalone and group test reviews, you can compare
the performance ofany computer,whetherit’s ahybrid, laptop or desktop,fromboth
sections ofthe magazine.
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