Test System

Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

• All games and cards are tested with the drivers listed above—no performance results were recycled between test systems. Only this exact system with exactly the same configuration is used for all results in this review.
• All graphics cards are tested using the same game version.
• All games are set to their highest quality setting unless indicated otherwise.
• All games are running at their native resolution without upscaling (no DLSS or FSR), except for the results on the "DLSS 4" page where we specifically look into that feature's performance
• All games have ray tracing disabled, except for testing on the "Ray Tracing" and "Path Tracing" pages
• AA and AF are applied via in-game settings, not via the driver's control panel.
• Before starting measurements, we heat up the card for each test to ensure a steady state is tested. This ensures that the card won't boost to unrealistically high clocks for only a few seconds until it heats up, as that doesn't represent prolonged gameplay.
• For better real-life applicability, all game tests use custom in-game test scenes, not the integrated benchmarks
• All cards used for comparison are reference designs. When a reference design does not exist, we go the extra mile and buy the closest possible match, which has reference clocks and default power limit.

Each game is tested at these screen resolutions:

• 1920x1080: Most popular monitor resolution.
• 2560x1440: Intermediary resolution between Full HD and 4K, with reasonable performance requirements.
• 3840x2160: 4K Ultra HD resolution, available on high-end monitors.

Date of Retest

We retest all our comparison cards every few months, with the latest drivers, new games, patches and OS updates.

• 2025-04-01: Arc A770 16 GB
• 2025-04-01: Arc B580 16 GB
• 2025-04-01: RTX 3060 12 GB
• 2025-04-02: RTX 3070 8 GB
• 2025-04-02: RTX 3080 10 GB
• 2025-04-02: RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB
• 2025-04-03: RTX 4060 8 GB
• 2025-04-03: RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB
• 2025-04-03: RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
• 2025-04-04: RTX 4070 12 GB
• 2025-04-04: RTX 4070 Super 12 GB
• 2025-04-04: RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB
• 2025-04-05: RTX 4070 Ti Super 16 GB
• 2025-04-05: RTX 4080 16 GB
• 2025-04-05: RTX 4080 Super 16 GB
• 2025-04-05: RTX 4090 24 GB
• 2025-04-06: RTX 5070 16 GB
• 2025-04-06: RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB
• 2025-04-06: RTX 5080 16 GB
• 2025-04-07: RTX 5090 32 GB
• 2025-04-07: RX 6800 XT 16 GB
• 2025-04-07: RX 6900 XT 16 GB
• 2025-04-08: RX 7600 8 GB
• 2025-04-08: RX 7600 XT 16 GB
• 2025-04-08: RX 7700 XT 12 GB
• 2025-04-09: RX 7800 XT 16 GB
• 2025-04-09: RX 7900 GRE 16 GB
• 2025-04-09: RX 7900 XT 20 GB
• 2025-04-09: RX 7900 XTX 24 GB
• 2025-04-10: RX 9070 16 GB
• 2025-04-10: RX 9070 XT 16 GB