Digital Storm Bolt II: Devil’s Canyon Inside

Based on the Unigine game engine, the Unigine Heaven and Valley benchmarks take users through dramatic 3D tours of exotic environments, complete with dynamic skies, tessellation, and SSAO (screen-space ambient occlusion).

Unigine Heaven And Valley Benchmarks
DX11 Gaming

Unigine Heaven provides heavy tessellation use and a dynamic sky to stress modern graphics cards. The Valley benchmark, on the other hand, is loaded with vegetation. The benchmark tours a forest thick with flowers, boulders, and rivers. We ran the test at 1920 x 1080, on Ultra Quality and with the Extreme Tessellation option.  










The Bolt II’s scores in Heaven and Valley show the edge that the Devil’s Canyon processor gives to the system, even in benchmarks that weigh graphics chops more heavily than CPU performance.

We also provided the scores from our recent Maingear RUSH reviews to give you a sense of how the Bolt II compares to systems decked out with dual graphics cards. Although all single-card systems in this comparison are outgunned by the dual-card behemoths in graphics tests like this, the playing field levels in system-level benchmarks like PCMark, as you’ll see shortly.
 

Joshua Gulick

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine.  A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family. 

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