3DMark
3DMark is the latest version of this hugely-popular synthetic benchmark. Making use of DX11 features such as tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading, it provides modern-day results and is available as a free download.
3DMark is our customary starting point and the numbers serve up no real surprises. MSI's Gaming X is up to four per cent quicker than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition in these synthetic tests.