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Best Bench: 15% MSI(1462 8C98) 2GB
Worst Bench: 11% MSI(1462 8C98) 2GB

Poor: 11% Great: 15%

SPEED RANK: 260^th / 713

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Best Bench: 29% Sapphire(174B E270) 2GB
Worst Bench: 25% Asus(1043 04A1) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 25% Great: 29%

SPEED RANK: 181^st / 713


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		13.6 %			26.9 %	Hugely faster effective speed. +97%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	17.1 fps	34.9 fps	Hugely better lighting effects. +104%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	16.4 fps	36.7 fps	Hugely better reflection handling. +124%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	13.4 fps	30.9 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +131%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	18.2 fps	32.5 fps	Much faster NBody calculation. +79%


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	18.6 fps	37.6 fps	Hugely better peak lighting effects. +102%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	21.4 fps	39.9 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +86%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	16 fps	33.4 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +109%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	19.5 fps	35.4 fps	Hugely faster peak NBody calculation. +82%


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	87 Fps	110 Fps	Better CSGO Fps. +26%
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	44 Fps	58 Fps	Much Better Fortnite Fps. +33%
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	35 Fps	41 Fps	Better GTAV Fps. +17%
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	102 Fps	113 Fps	Better LoL Fps. +11%
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	112 Fps	120 Fps	Slightly Better Minecraft Fps. +7%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)		0.46 %	Insanely higher market share. +4,500%		0.01 %
User Rating UBM User Rating		59 %			61 %	+3%


Age Newest	89+ Months	Much more recent. +33%	133 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	19.7 fps		50.6 fps	Hugely better peak texture detail. +157%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	17.5 fps		27.5 fps	Much faster peak complex splatting. +57%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	17.1 fps		44.4 fps	Hugely better texture detail. +160%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	15.8 fps		25.3 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +60%

Can be excellent low power discrete GPU (although you get same performance as Vega 11 iGPU on AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and you're lucky to get GDDR5 ones) or weak little ants (if you got GT 1030 with DDR4 VRAM which makes VRAM itself a bottleneck for this GPU). ^{[Nov '19 ColdSpy]}

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