PC Specialist Vortex S3 System Review w/ i7-10700K

1. Introduction2. PCSpecialist Vortex S3 Closer Look3. Performance: 3DMark & Cinebench4. Performance: Gaming Benchmarks5. Performance: Memory, SSD & PCMark106. Performance: Thermals, Noise & Power7. Closing Thoughts8. View All Pages

Performance: 3DMark & Cinebench

3DMark

A 3Dmark benchmark is always a good indication of a system’s performance and is a handy tool for comparing your system against others in the database to see if it’s performing as it should. We ran a series of 3DMark benchmarks to test the system’s performance and show the scores achieved for CPU (Physics), GPU and an overall score in our charts below, to compare performance against recent systems we have tested.

Comparison systems:

PCSpecialist Ignite X1 – £1350

AMD Ryzen 9 3900, XFX RX 5700 XT 8GB, 16GB DDR4-3200.

Cyberpower Ultra 9 RTX Super – £2099

AMD Ryzen 9 3900, MSI RTX 2080 SUper 8GB, 32GB DDR4-3200.

Cyberpower Hydro-X Ultra Gaming – £2595

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, reference AMD RX 5700 XT, 16GGB DDR4-3200.

3DMark benchmark tests didn’t throw up any results out of the ordinary. Performance of the Vortex S3 in all of the 3DMark benchmarks was comparable to the other three systems we have tested recently, performing best in the DirectX 12 Time Spy benchmark at 1440p (2560×1440) resolution.

Cinebench

PCSpecialist has equipped the Vortex S3 with a new Intel Core i7-10700K, not only is it a great CPU for gaming but also very capable at multitasking, which makes it an ideal CPU for productivity tasks. With this in mind, we ran a series of tests on both Cinebench R15 and R20 and compiled a chart below to compare the results against other pre-built systems we have reviewed recently.

CineBench R15 Multi-thread Performance:

Cinebench R20 Multi-thread & Single-thread Performance:

In both Cinebench R15 and R20 multi-thread workloads, the i7-10700K slots into position on our charts exactly where we would expect. Right in between an 8 core 16 thread and 12 core 24 thread AMD systems. No surprise that the higher core frequency of the Intel Core i7-10700K beats the 8 core Ryzen processors but naturally, the higher core count of Ryzen 9 3900 equipped systems perform better in these multi-thread tasks.

Multi-thread performance results are still very high for the PCSpecialist Vortex S3 which means the system would also make a great system for heavy multitasking workloads such as productivity, video editing and content creation, as well as being a very capable gaming system.

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