3DMark Fire Strike
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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 Fire Strike remains an integral part of any benchmark suite, and though not always a definite indication of real-world gaming performance, it certainly gives you an idea. In all three of the Fire Strike tests, GTX 1080 is comfortably ahead of R9 Fury X.
What's interesting is that there's very little separating the Inno3D iChill Black and Nvidia Founders Edition cards. The reason for this is that the Nvidia starts off quick in these relatively short tests, but as we'll see in the upcoming games, maintaining a high boost clock isn't easy when temperature starts to creep up.
