System Overview & Testing Procedures
The card easily installs in our X99 system.
Our graphics card test bench is made up of the following components:
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X
Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-Ultra Gaming
Graphics Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition
Memory: 32GB Crucial DDR4-2133
Storage: Crucial MX300 750GB SSD
Power: Corsair HX1200i
Cooling: Corsair H80i GT
Case: Lian Li PC-T80
Opening up GPU-Z we can verify the speeds of the card.
We will be comparing the following cards:
Gigabyte Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 8GB
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 3GB
Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 OC
Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMP!
Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition
AMD Cards tested on: Crimson 16.14.2
NVIDIA Cards tested on: Game Ready 375.95
Benchmarking Information
We have an entire benchmarking suite to test these cards to their full potential. Games will be run at 1080p, 1440p and 4K resolutions. Our benchmarking suite also includes synthetic tests as well.
Synthetic Tests
3DMark
– Time Spy
– Fire Strike
– Fire Strike Extreme
– Fire Strike Ultra
Heaven Benchmark 5.0
Game Tests
Ashes of The Singularity
DOOM
The Division
Star Wars Battlefront
Grand Theft Auto V
FarCry 4
Batman Arkham Origins
Metro Last Light Redux
Other Tests
Power Consumption
– GPU-Z Sensor reading
Temperatures
– GPU-Z Sensor reading
Noise Levels
– Galaxy Audio CM130 Sound Pressure Level Meter
Now let’s get to testing!
