DinoPC Primal GT0 System Review (FX8320/RX480)

1. Introduction2. DinoPC Primal GT03. Testing Methodology and Configuration4. SiSoft Sandra5. Cinebench R156. Handbrake video encoding7. SSD and HDD Performance8. USB 3.0 Bandwidth Testing9. SteamVR Performance Test10. 3DMark1111. 3DMark12. Grid Autosport13. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor14. Grand Theft Auto V15. Doom (2016)16. Thermal Dynamics and Acoustics Performance17. Power Consumption18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

Sandra is a (girls’) name of Greek origin that means “defender”, “helper of mankind”. We think that’s quite fitting.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what’s really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Native ports for all major operating systems are available:

• Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x86)
• Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x64)
• Windows 2003/R2, 2008/R2* (IA64)
• Windows Mobile 5.x (ARM CE 5.01)
• Windows Mobile 6.x (ARM CE 5.02)

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:

• SMP – Multi-Processor
• MC – Multi-Core
• SMT/HT – Hyper-Threading
• MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, FMA – Multi-Media instructions
• GPGPU, DirectX, OpenGL – Graphics
• NUMA – Non-Uniform Memory Access
• AMD64/EM64T/x64 – 64-bit extensions to x86
• IA64 – Intel* Itanium 64-bit

The FX-8320 and 990X chipset show their age a bit here. The CPU falls behind in the Sandra arithmetic test, with the Intel Core i5-6500 from UK Gaming Computers' Styx ahead of it.

Memory bandwidth is below the levels of the Styx, too – despite both RAM kits being clocked at 2133MHz, as well as the the GT0 having 16GB when the Styx has 8GB of DDR3.

Not the best start for the GT0 – but this is merely one synthetic test of many real-world and synthetic benchmarks we have ahead, so let us march on.

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