Performance Benchmarks
3DMark 11 (DX11)
3DMark 11 is a DirectX 11 video card benchmark test for measuring your PC’s gaming performance. 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of DirectX 11 features including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 consistently and reliably tests your PC’s DirectX 11 performance under game-like loads.
As you can see, the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X is a very capable gaming graphics card, exceeding the minimum specifications for a VR gaming setup.
3DMark v2 – Firestrike (DX11)
Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark designed for today’s high-performance gaming PCs. It is our most ambitious and technical benchmark ever, featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today.
3DMark v2 – Time Spy (DX12)
3DMark Time Spy is a new DirectX 12 benchmark test for Windows 10 gaming PCs. Time Spy is one of the first DirectX 12 apps to be built “the right way” from the ground up to fully realize the performance gains that the new API offers. With its pure DirectX 12 engine, which supports new API features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading, Time Spy is the ideal test for benchmarking the latest graphics cards.
Even with the stress of running DirectX 12, the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X coped remarkably well and understandably scores by a fair margin behind it’s bigger brothers.
Monster Hunter Online
Monster Hunter Online, NVIDIA and Crytek have joined hands and accomplished this stunning benchmark program.The program is based on client game Monster Hunter Online, and was produced with world’s leading game engine CRYENGINE.A series of advanced technology including Real Time Rendering, Physical Based Shading, Realistic Vegetation Rendering, NVIDIA PhysX Clothing, NVIDIA Hairworks and NVIDIA HBAO+ helped creating such magnificent and realistic hunting environment.
DOOM
Doom is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks. It uses id Tech 6 engine which is a multiplatform game engine developed by id Software. It’s one of the first games to use the Vulcan API.
There’s no benchmark feature on DOOM. However, we switched everything to ULTRA settings and monitored the frame rates for 60 seconds in 3 laps/runs. Frame rates averaged 132 FPS, with highs of 172 FPS and lows of around 121 FPS.
Cinebench (OpenGL)
CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software Cinema 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Iron Man 3, Oblivion, Life of Pi or Prometheus and many more. CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and OS X).
