3DMark
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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 on-paper specifications suggest that the Nano is a close competitor to the liquid-cooled Fury X card. The reality is somewhat different because, as expected, the Nano card modulates the core frequency, but not the memory, as 100 per cent load is applied.
Our logs show the core speed very rarely touches the quoted 1,000MHz. Instead, it oscillates between 820MHz and 910MHz, averaging 865MHz, thus helping explain why it's slower than the Sapphire Fury Tri-X OC card.