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ComputerShopperrates
products outof five:
BUSINESSBUY
The very best productsforwork
win our Business Buy award.
RECOMMENDED
Products that don’t quitequalify
foraBest Buy award but are still
highly ratedby our reviewers.
BEST BUY
Products with outstanding quality
and performanceforthe money
win our Best Buy award.
The best products can win
thefollowing awards:
BENCHMARKS RATINGS &AWARDS
DIRTSHOWDOWN
Dirt Showdown isacracking racing
game that makes good useof
DirectX 11’sfancy graphicaleffects.
You’ll want at least 30fpsfor
smooth racing.
TOMB RAIDER
With the ultra-demanding
Super-Sampling Anti-Aliasing
(SSAA)enabled, 2013’sTomb Raider
reboot isagreat indicatorof
mid-range performance.
METRO: LAST
LIGHT REDUX
Our most demanding graphicstest
uses tessellation, SSAA and massive
textures to giveeven 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 resultsto compare PCs and laptops, no matter which
operating system theyrun. It’s designedto te st each computerto its limit, using a
combinationof intensive image-editing, video-encoding and multitaskingtests.
We ran thetests 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 hadascore of 100. This makes it easyto draw comparisons between
test systems.
The resultingoverall score is shown at the bottomof ev ery PC and laptop review.
As we use the sametests in our standalone and grouptest reviews, you can compare
the performanceof any computer,whether it’sahybrid, laptop or desktop,from both
sectionsof the magazine.
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