Here at eTeknix, we endeavour to disclose vital information regarding the benchmarking process so that readers can quantify the results and attempt to replicate them using their hardware. When it comes to our benchmarks in our reviews, the benchmarks are pretty self-explanatory although there are a few exceptions. Remember that your choice of motherboard, the silicon lottery, and other factors can yield different numbers, and there’s always a margin for error when using any software. Therefore, your experience may vary, but our aim is to make our results as good a representation of real-world performance as possible.
We typically focus on commonly available benchmarks so that you too can run the same benchmarks on your own system. We hope this makes it easy for our readers to gauge the performance improvement available to them when they upgrade their own systems.
All games are run at their specified resolutions using the “high” settings or equivalent. We avoid using the Ultra settings as these often offer diminishing returns for performance vs visuals. If a game runs extremely well using high settings, then we can safely suggest the hardware can be used at higher graphics settings. We may sometimes run more advanced settings, such as ray tracing, DLSS, and similar, but again, these will be made clear in the title of each benchmark.
Processor | Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake Core i9-12900K |
Motherboard | Changes Per Review |
Memory | Corsair Dominator RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 5200MHz |
Graphics | Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC |
Storage | Seagate FireCuda 530 2TB |
Power Supply | Corsair HX750 750W |
Software | Windows 10 Pro 21H1 |
Drivers | NVIDIA GeForce Build 19043.1320 |
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