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Best Bench: 59% Asus(1043 04A4)
Worst Bench: 50% Gigabyte(1458 22C6)

Poor: 50% Great: 59%

SPEED RANK: 120^th / 713

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Best Bench: 50% Sapphire(174B E289) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 41% HP(103C 6516) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 41% Great: 50%

SPEED RANK: 135^th / 713


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		54.3 %	Faster effective speed. +17%		46.4 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	67.7 fps	Better lighting effects. +13%	59.7 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	58.7 fps		68.4 fps	Better reflection handling. +17%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	57.3 fps		59.5 fps	+4%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	72.2 fps	Much faster NBody calculation. +30%	55.5 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	74.7 fps	Better peak lighting effects. +15%	65.1 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	67.5 fps		73.2 fps	Slightly better peak reflection handling. +8%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	60.4 fps		63.8 fps	Slightly faster peak multi rendering. +6%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	77.8 fps	Much faster peak NBody calculation. +31%	59.6 fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0 %		0.01 %	Insanely higher market share. +∞%
Value Value For Money	28.6 %	+4%	27.5 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	52 %		60 %	More popular. +15%
Price Price (score)	$450		$399	Cheaper. +11%


Age Newest	108+ Months	More recent. +19%	133 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	108 fps	Better peak texture detail. +22%	88.6 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	75.6 fps	Much faster peak complex splatting. +67%	45.2 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	98.8 fps	Better texture detail. +22%	81.1 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	63 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +48%	42.5 fps

A tiny beast for a little fire ants. Still sold at exorbitantly high prices for RX 580-like performance which makes this not worth buying. ^{[Oct '19 ColdSpy]}

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