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ISSUE 378|COMPUTERSHOPPER|AUGUST 2019 111
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DIRTSHOWDOWN
Dirt Showdownisacracking racing
game that makes good use of
DirectX11’s fancy graphical effects.
You’llwantatleast30fpsfor
smooth racing.
TOMB RAIDER
With the ultra-demanding
Super-SamplingAnti-Aliasing
(SSAA)enabled, 2013’s TombRaider
rebootis agreat indicator of
mid-range performance.
METRO: LAST
LIGHT REDUX
Ourmostdemanding graphics test
uses tessellation,SSAA and massive
textures to giveevenhigh-endcards
athoroughworkout.
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 system theyrun. 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 tests on our reference PC, which has an Intel Core i5-4670K processor,
8GB of DDR3 RAM and an AMD Radeon R7 260X graphics card. We normalised our
results so this PC had ascore of 100. This makes it easy to draw comparisons between
test systems.
The resulting overall score is shown at the bottom of every PC and laptop review.
As we use the same tests in our standalone and group test reviews, you can compare
the performance of any computer,whether it’s ahybrid, laptop or desktop,from both
sections of the magazine.
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