Benchmarks – 3DMark’s Fire Strike
3DMark’s Fire Strike benchmark is a demanding set of tests for high-performance setups. It features advanced lighting, particle effects, and highly detailed environments and character models. It pushes even the very latest video cards hard.
MSI Lightning GeForce GTX 680
3DMark Fire Strike Score: 7003
Graphics Score: 7925
Physics Score: 10359
Combined Score: 2971
Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290
Score: 8983
Graphics Score: 10407
Physics Score: 10090
Combined Score: 4101
The GTX 680 compared better than 78% of other results. But the R9 290 compared better than 89% of other results, coming right up to the coattails of 3DMark Fire Strike’s reference high-end system (NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan and Intel Core i7-4770K) score of 9131.