MAXIMUM BENCHMARKING
GOOD-QUALITY TECH JOURNALISM starts with a solid, objective testing platform, there’s no doubt about it. However, in print things are more complicated than in the world of digital. There’s a very fine balancing act that needs to be performed: Resources and budgets are less readily available here, and time and space far more limited. Fixed print deadlines and word counts are incredibly restrictive, and because of that we can’t just throw pages and pages of benchmarks at you, without sacrificing quality content elsewhere; whether that’s the fantastic photography our art division produces, or the intricately woven literary entertainment, knowledge, and opinions of our writers. Finding the perfect balance between it all is key.
Maximum PC’s current set of benchmarks and zero-points have been getting somewhat long in the tooth, and frankly they could really do with a good ol’ refresh. To that end, this time around we’re going to take you on a complete tour of what tests we’re going to be introducing in the coming months, how we’ll be testing our hardware, and what we plan to do with the results once we’re done.
So if you’re curious about where we’re heading, or interested in learning how to benchmark your own machine, then it’s time to turn the page and enter into the wondrous realm of synthetic and real-world tests you need to know about for the next few years.
Proving Processor Performance
to push the limits of 14nm, and Ryzen prefers to do its own thing, we feel that overclocking outside of the world of LN2 is effectively dead for the majority of enthusiasts.
