In Shanghai,Project R.I.S.Ewas announcedand the team has already conducted a couple of low-key playtests. (The next testhas also been just announced.) This is the team I work with the closest, and I’m happy to see how much the team has grown and evolved this year. Not without h...
Heaven Benchmark can make your GPU very hot and you can actually feel hot air coming out of the cooling fan if you put your hand in front of it. This is why it is also a good way to test your cooling fans and heat sinks. If you have recently applied new thermal paste, then you ...
Given the lack of solid comparative test results, the scores provided in this ‘Shadow of the Tomb Raider’ benchmark are, again, a little limited. In other words, you can take what we’re about to say with a grain of salt as when we conduct our own testing, we may see somethingvery...
After evaluating a laptop's hands-on performance and benchmark testing results, we make our final recommendations based on whether we think they offer a good overall value for the money. A too-expensive laptop will sometimes get a pass if we think it looks and works so great that it's wo...
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The in-game FPS testing includes synthetic and game benchmark results for reference purposes. If your benchmark scores are significantly different from the ones provided, please contact us to diagnose any possible problems with your sample. Please note that the scores and performance might change as...
3DMark Basic gives you pretty much one button to push, and then your gaming PC is benchmarked.3DMark Basic offers very few options. Screen resolution is fixed; so is the suite of tests. You can choose between running the benchmark test, or running the benchmark tests and a series of nic...
We also run a stress test, which currently consists of the Metro Exodus benchmark on the RTX preset, run 15 times in a loop while recording system statistics with HWInfo. (This is also when we take our heat tests).Additionally, we run a series of productivity benchmarks, including Geekben...
How we test CPUs For CPU reviews in 2024 onward, we've updated our full benchmark suite to make it more relevant to today's processors and use scenarios: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Homeworld 3, Metro Exodus Enhanced, Total War: Warhammer 3, 3DMark Time Spy, Cinebench 2024, Blen...
How we test gaming laptops The PCWorld team puts each and every Windows laptop through a series of benchmarks that test GPU and CPU performance, battery life, and so on. The idea is to push the laptop to its limits and then compare it against others we’ve tested. Below, you’ll fin...