Maingear EPIC RUSH With Radeon R9 290X Crossfire
PCMark and 3DMark Tests
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 PCMark 7 |
PCMark 7 runs through the types of tasks your PC is likely to encounter
during ordinary home and office use. It tests the system’s graphics
capabilities as well, but it isn’t mean to test the limits of high-end,
discrete graphics card. Look at the two PCMark benchmarks as an
indicator of a system’s general usage performance. |
Futuremark PCMark 8 Results
Futuremark PCMark 8 Results
Futuremark PCMark 8 Results
Graphics aren’t the focus of the PCMark tests, so the Radeon R9 290Xs don’t give the EPIC RUSH the same kind of edge they provide in other benchmarks. Nonetheless, the system scored well here.
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 3DMark 11
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Although Futuremark’s 3DMark 11 has been around for several years, it
still provides a good look at a system’s gaming capabilities. It's also
handy tool for benchmarking machines that still run Windows 7. We ran
this benchmark on the Performance preset, at 1280 x 720 resolution. If
you download the free version of this benchmark, make sure you're using
the Performance preset to avoid comparing scores that were run with
different test configurations. |
Unsurprisingly, the EPIC RUSH took the top spot in the 3DMark 11 test. Given the rig’s high-end components, it’s likely to stay at the top of the pack in most of our benchmarks.
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 Fire Strike
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The next test we chose was Futuremark’s newest: 3DMark Fire Strike is
designed specifically for high-end gaming PCs like the Chimera. Because
Extreme mode is geared towards systems that have multiple graphics cards
in CrossFire or SLI configurations, we opted for Normal mode, which
runs at 1920 x 1080. |
Futuremark recently updated this 3DMark test, so we’re showing the system’s performance for reference only, without comparing it to the scores from previous system reviews, as those are based on the older benchmark version.
