Gaming and Synthetic Benchmarks
Gaming Benchmarks
For gaming benchmarks, I chose 4 games, and mostly new titles. Games were tested with an EVGA GTX 1070 TI FTW2. I tested the new Assassins Creed Origins, Shadow of War, the sequel to Shadow of Mordor and Grand Theft Auto 5. Each game was tested in 1080p, 1440p and 4k. All games were played at their very high presets. They were left at their stock settings. Each benchmark run was timed at 120 seconds, ran three times each, then averaged out to get the results.
Assassins Creed Origins is the newest game in my suite, having been released at the end of October. The game is set in ancient Egypt. Ubisoft built a gorgeous open world that’s fun to explore. The game looks amazing. With so much detail, it’s no wonder the game puts a serious strain on your GPU. Shadow of War is the sequel to the very successful, Shadow of Mordor. Taking place in the Lord of the Rings universe, Monolith Productions did an amazing job creating the world of Middle Earth in both games. Shadow of war is beautiful, and one of the best-optimized games I’ve ever played. Although GTA V is the oldest game in the suite, it’s still a very demanding game, especially with the Advanced Graphics on. Although the 1070 TI is more than capable of running the game on its ultra-preset, the games were all run on their very high presets. The one exception was GTA V. For GTA V, the advanced graphics were left on their default settings.
For most people, the 1080p results are the most important. This is because most PC gamers still play in 1080p resolution. All three games did very well with the 1070 TI FTW2. The best being Shadow of War which averaged 93 frames per second (fps). Next was GTA V with 89 fps and last was the newest game in this round of benchmarks, Assassins Creed Origins with 74 FPS. AC origins also had the lowest minimum with 27 fps, followed by Shadow of War with 31 fps and finally, GTA V with 53 fps. For highs, Shadow of War was first with 209 FPS followed by GTA V with 131 fps and AC Origins with 117 fps.
For 1440p, GTA V had the highest average with 69 fps. Next was Shadow of War with 64 fps and last was AC Origins with 58 FPS. For lows, Shadow of War was the lowest with 21 fps followed by AC Origins with 30 FPS. The highest minimum was GTA V with 47 FPS. For the highs, Shadow of War was the best with 187 FPS, next was AC Origins with 92 FPS followed by GTA V with 85 FPS. Overall, it seems that GTA V did best in 1440p. This shouldn’t be a surprise since it is the oldest title in the suite. But GTA V still has one of, if not the most extensive graphics menu this reviewer has ever seen.
In 4k, both GTA V and Shadow of War average 37 FPS. Far from the desired 60 fps, but still playable. AC Origins was just behind the other two with 35 FPS, also very playable. As for the lows, Shadow of was the worst with 17 fps followed by AC Origins with 27 fps. GTA V did best with 28 FPS. For Highs, Shadow of War did best by far with 176 fps. Next was GTA V with 37 and last was AC Origins with 35. I tested Shadow of War with both the in-game benchmark and using Fraps. In both situations, I got these spikes with very high fps. I still have no clue why. Overall, the EVGA GTX 1070 TI FTW2 did an excellent job pair with the R7 2700.
3DMARK
3DMark is a computer benchmarking tool created and developed by Futuremark used to determine the performance of a computer’s 3D graphics rendering and CPU workload processing capabilities. It does this through a series of graphics and physics and or CPU tests. I used 3DMarks most popular benchmark, Firestrike as well as their newest DX12 benchmark, Time Spy to test the EVGA GTX 1070 TI FTW2. The card was tested at both stock and overclocked to +175 on the core and +350 on the memory, using MSI Afterburner.
The R7 2700, both paired with the EVGA GTX 1070 TI FTW2, did very well in both Firestrike and Time Spy. I ran both Firestrike and Time spy several times each and went with the best overall scores. Each benchmark was tested with the 1070 TI at both its stock speed and overclocked to +175 on the core and +350 on the memory. On Firestrike, The R7 2700 scored 15071 on stock speeds and 15950 overclocked. On Time Spy, the 2700 scored 6350 at stock, and 7277 overclocked.
Unigine Heaven
The Heaven Benchmark is a DirectX 11 benchmark designed to stress your GPU under heavy loads. The Heaven Benchmark can be used to determine the stability of a GPU under extremely stressful conditions. I ran the heaven benchmark with the EVGA GTX 1080 SC on a custom Preset, Ultra Quality, Extreme Tessellation, AA X8, in 2560 x 1440p and 1920 x 1080, using the DX 11 API. The setting was kept the same for both resolutions. Our EVGA GTX 1070 TI FTW2 received an overall score of 1501 with an average FPS of 59.6 a minimum of 23.8 and a maximum of 125.6 on 2560 x 1440. On 1920 x 1080, our EVGA GTX 1070 TI FTW2 received an overall score of 2515 with an average FPS of 99.8 a minimum or 30.3and a maximum if 205.2.
