3DMark06 simulates DirectX 9.0c (Shader 3.0) games and it also puts HDR (High Dynamic Range) into the equation to calculate its final score. So it simulates the most high-end games available today. Since we were comparing high-end cards, we ran this program in higher resolutions, as performance difference between high-end video cards is more expressive on such resolutions. We chose three resolutions, 1600×1200, 1920×1440 and 2048×1536. The results you check below. All video cards listed below were running with the default clock rates defined by the chip manufacturer, except MSI GeForce 8800 GTS “OC”, which is the reviewed model with its default overclocked settings.
The Ryzen 7 2700X is the most high-end model of the new second-gen Ryzen family, with eight cores, 16 threads, and 4.3 GHz maximum clock. Check it out!
Thunderbolt is a power supply series with 80 Plus Gold certification from Thortech, featuring a modular cabling system. Let’s see if the 850 W version survives our tests.
AMD is announcing today the Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition, a mainstream video card based on PCI Express 3.0 and DirectX 11.1. Let’s see how it performs on our tests.