Synthetic and application benchmarks:
Our first series of tests will be dedicated to synthetic benchmarks. These are often used for overclocking competitions, but are also very interesting for comparing different GPUs. We’ll be focusing on benchmarks from the 3DMark series. Our scores may sometimes appear slightly lower, but that’s because we’re testing them with a native definition of 2160p on our ROG PG27UQ screen. If we change our screen definition to 1080p for 3DMark tests, the GPU score is better.
As we mentioned in the introduction, we’re busy re-testing all our graphics cards, and our table should be complete again for the release of the other SUPER models. We still have to test the RTX 3000 and RX 6000 for 1080p definition. In the meantime, you can find our latest graphics card panel here. But the good news is that we’ve come to the end of our tests.
We’ll be testing the following benchmarks:
- Fire Strike (1080p)
- Fire Strike Ultra (2160p)
- Time Spy (1440p)
- Time Spy Extreme (2160p)
- 3DMark Speed Way
- 3DMark Port Royal
3DMark Fire Strike and Fire Strike Ultra :
Let’s start with 3DMark Fire Strike, one of today’s most widely used benchmarks. It consists of two graphics tests, a CPU test and a fourth test that combines GPU and CPU. Don’t forget to deactivate the demo, which makes no contribution to the final score and prolongs the benchmark’s duration (unnecessarily). The version used for these tests is, of course, the latest available.
Our first benchmark with this ASUS TUF Gaming RX 7600 XT OC 16GB is well ahead (again) of the RTX 4060, with a gain of 3.7% over the RX 7600. In other words, nothing exceptional.
Under Fire Strike Ultra, our ASUS TUF Gaming RX 7600 XT OC 16GB takes the lead over NVIDIA’s RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, with a score of 7645 points. The gap increases slightly with the RX 7600, to 4.4%. We’ll try to get our hands on a copy of an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB to add to our tests.
3DMark Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme:
The second test is 3DMark Time Spy. Although this one is performed in 1440p, its main feature is that it uses DirectX 12. It consists of two graphics tests and a CPU test. As with Fire Strike, don’t forget to disable the demo. These first two benchmarks are provided by UL Benchmark.
The performance obtained in Time Spy is often representative of what we’ll get in games. Here, our sample of the day scores 12036 points, a 3.7% gain over the RX 7600. We’ll see if we get the same differences in rasterization and 1440p definition.
Under 3DMark Time Spy Extreme, we obtain a score of 5707 points. We should see a more interesting performance gain in 1440p than in 1080p, but we’ll have to wait and see.
3DMark Speed Way:
Ulbenchmark’s latest benchmark, and it’s nice to be able to say we’re going to benchmark this Speed Way. It uses DirectX 12 and defaults to 1440p. We haven’t modified anything, so we’re using the original benchmark.
Here too, our ASUS TUF Gaming RX 7600 XT OC 16GB scores 2062 points and takes penultimate place on our graph.
3DMark Port Royal:
Here’s a benchmark we left out last year, but which you may have wanted to see again in our tests. It’s still widely used, especially in the overclocking community. So we’ve decided to add it to our tests.
There were no surprises in this latest benchmark in the 3DMark series, with a score of 5930 points and penultimate place in our graph. Next month sees the arrival of a new benchmark, Steel Nomad, which we will of course be adding to our tests.
