3DMark 2013

Futuremark 3DMark has three primary benchmark tests that you can run and which test you should be running depends on the system that you are benchmarking on.

• Ice Storm – For mobile devices and entry-level PCs
• Cloud Gate – For notebooks and home PCs
• Fire Strike – For gaming PCs
• Fire Strike Extreme – For extreme gaming PCs (extreme mode for those with multiple GPUs)

We ran the FireStrike  Extreme benchmark to see how the processors would perform.

Benchmark Results: 3DMark Firestrike Extreme showed really nice performance scaling and showed the Core i7-4960X to be less than 1% faster than the Core i7-3960X in the overall test. In the Physics section of the benchmark the Core i7-4960X was found to be nearly 7% faster!