3DMark Ranking 2022: 50 models from 2014 to 2022 in the benchmark [Update: Intel Arc A380]

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Update from August 24th: After we updated all the readings two weeks ago, we finally got it the first Intel graphics card from the Arc Alchemist series in the PCGH test lab – and of course we ran it through the 3DMark straight away. This is a model overclocked to 2,450 MHz at the factory – Intel sees a scope up to 2,350 MHz within the “reference specification”. We are therefore depicting the best case here with a very fast A380 variant. Normally we would lower the clock manually to reflect the reference performance, but in this case none of the usual tuning tools work yet. We only had the choice of slowing down the graphics card in the Arc Control driver panel with a reduced GPU power limit. However, that would only be an approximation, so we’ll let the card run with factory settings for the time being. You can read more about the Intel Arc A380 in the article 151 graphics cards in the benchmark: 75× AMD Radeon, 75× Nvidia Geforce and 1× Intel Arc in 3DMark Fire Strike and soon in other articles on PCGH.de.

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The basis for all graphics card tests 2022 is our graphics card test system with Intel Core i9-12900K @ 5.2 GHz under Windows 11 x64, which was upgraded in March. We are curious to see exactly where new GPU generations will be in autumn and winter – valid comparative values ​​for classification are hereby available. By the way, anyone who compares high-end GPUs should take a look at the Timespy Extreme, because the CPU plays a much smaller role in the result here than with the regular Timespy, which is very dependent on the infrastructure of high-end GPUs. Port Royal, meanwhile, illustrates the ray tracing performance well, the rankings hardly differ from the PCGH ray tracing performance index.

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If you are looking for a graphics card for gaming, study gaming benchmarks and then buy a model that suits your gaming taste, the screen resolution and, last but not least, the available budget. It is not for nothing that the PCGH performance index for graphics cards consists of a diverse mix of 20 games in four resolutions, which is determined in a complex and manual choreography. But not everyone wants to replay our tests according to the instructions or owns all the titles. A simple method to get a quick performance classification of your own graphics card is also possible with 3DMark.

3DMark: Even older than the PCGH

3DMark is an institution. For more than 25 years, the hard-working Finns from Futuremark have been programming one graphics card test suite worth seeing after the other. While it was initially about textures, polygons and blending, we have long since arrived in the age of complex shaders, Ultra HD tests and real-time ray tracing – and Futuremark (in the meantime MadOnion) is no longer an independent company, but has been replaced by UL benchmarks accepted. The current product goes by the simple name 3DMark – without year or euphonious addition as before. There are still updates.

Practical: 3DMark can not only be downloaded and used as a standalone program, but is also available on Valve’s distribution platform Steam – including one free demo. the 3DMark Basic Edition can also be downloaded directly and independently from UL Benchmarks. This allows you to try out some of the various tests. For the following graphics card ranking, we use the 3DMark full version, which usually costs 25 euros, but is often offered at a heavily discounted price. If you want to compare your graphics card with our values ​​in all tests, you can’t avoid the 3DMark Advanced Edition.

So that you know at a glance how your graphics card performs in comparison – or to be able to better classify the latest rumors about the performance of the Geforce RTX 4000 and Radeon RX 7000 – we offer you a neat 3DMark ranking based on Tests Time Spy Extreme and Port Royal. Reference cards without overclocking are used to map the minimum performance. To make the processor’s performance less important, we don’t specify the total score, but the graphics scorepartially supplemented by the average frame rates.

3DMark Time Spy: Classic halftone performance

3DMark offers countless tests to determine and compare the performance of stronger and weaker hardware. In the context of powerful gaming graphics cards, the Time Spy Extreme is an ideal candidate, as it draws DirectX 12 graphics full of effects in Ultra HD resolution that are well worth seeing. Conveniently, you don’t need an Ultra HD monitor – if you don’t have one, downsampling is simply applied to the existing display; However, a graphics card with at least 4 gigabytes of memory is required for the demanding test. In the following, we don’t give the total score, which takes the processor performance into account, but the graphics score, which shows the easily comparable, pure graphics performance.

3DMark Port Royal: Raytracing performance checked

Since autumn 2018, graphics cards from the Geforce RTX series have been able to accelerate ray tracing effects in hardware. Since November 2020, ray tracing has also been possible on AMD graphics cards from the Radeon RX 6000 series. And Intel is now on board too – the gaming offshoots of the Arc A700 series are expected for autumn. Until then, we compare the ray tracing performance of the graphics card models Geforce RTX 20, Geforce RTX 30 and Radeon RX 6000.

in the Port Royal White Paper the developers reveal some details about their ray tracing test. Accordingly, Port Royal not only offers raytraced reflections, but also raytraced shadows. In order for all of this to move across the screen as smoothly as possible, work was done on the parallelization: In addition to asynchronous compute on the GPU, there is also strong CPU multithreading in order to process as many tasks as possible per cycle. The test, which outputs both a score and an average fps value after completion, runs in WQHD resolution, i.e. 2,560 × 1,440 pixels. As expected, the demands on the graphics card are high, and 3DMark Port Royal only runs smoothly on the fastest gaming graphics cards. The latter is probably also the reason why the developers only activate the third ray tracing feature, a global illumination (Global Illumination) called Photon Mapping, in the demo sequence that precedes the benchmark. The latter is particularly worth seeing because of this and a fluid simulation, but it is also jerky.

Since November 2020, 3DMark has also offered a full ray tracing test (DXR Feature Test). Previous solutions, including 3DMark Port Royal, use a less sophisticated rasterizing base, which is selectively enhanced using ray tracing. We’ve included the results of that test in this article as well, as it provides interesting clues as to raw ray tracing performance.