Benchmarks: Gaming
Strap a pair of overclocked GeForce GTX 1080s together and 3DMark performance will naturally soar. We've previously seen a Scan X99 system breakthrough the 30,000-point barrier at a cost of £6,500. The Z270 Vengeance SLI isn't too far behind and costs half as much.
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We've run all the other relevant Futuremark tests and the dual GTX 1080s sail through every test except for VRMark Blue Room. This demanding benchmark gauges suitability for next-generation VR headsets and we've yet to see a PC that can muster the 5,000 marks required to pass.
Gaming is the Z270 Vengeance SLI's primary purpose and you may be surprised to find that your mileage will vary in real-world titles. Gaming at FHD and QHD resolutions is understandably silky-smooth, yet at 4K UHD only one of the four games on show is rendered in excess of 60 frames per second.
Expecting more from a £3,000 build armed with dual GTX 1080s? Welcome to the foibles of SLI scaling. Suspecting that the two cards weren't being utilised to their full potential, we re-benched the four games at a 4K resolution with SLI disabled. In this scenario, Deus Ex returned 29fps, Hitman scored 58fps, Rise of the Tomb Raider managed 47fps and Total War delivered 49fps. The numbers tell us that SLI scaling is good in one title, poor in another, and nonexistent in the remaining two.
