3DMark
3DMark is the latest version of this hugely-popular synthetic benchmark. Making use of DX11 features such as tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading, it provides modern-day results and is available as a free download.
The synthetic 3DMark test gets us up and running and confirms that Palit's card is, as expected, a little quicker than reference. Performance at this £230 price point is really rather good: the next card up Nvidia's ladder - GTX 780 - starts at around £360.