Article index:
- 1 – Overview
- 2 – Gallery
- 3 – Gallery: inside the BRIX
- 4 – CPU and GPU Data
- 5 – Benchmarks
- 6 – Agressive Throttling and Noise
- 7 – Conclusion
5 – Benchmarks
I won’t detail the testbed because GIGABYTE BRIX is a closed testbed itself and we can’t just replace the GTX 760 by another graphics card. But just to have an idea, the testbed I used for discrete GPUs is based on a GIGABYTE G.SNIPER M5 motherboard + Intel Core i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz + 16GB of DDR3 @ 1600MHz.
I installed the latest NVIDIA R340.76 graphics drivers on the BRIX GTX 760. R340.76 brings the OpenGL 4.5 support but it is not used in these tests. The operating system is Windows 8.1 PRO 64-bit.
The benchmark is essentially focused on the comparison between the GTX 750 (Maxwell) and the GTX 760 (Kepler). Other GPUs can be added in comparison when data is available.
5.1 – 3DMark (2013)
5.1.1 – 3DMark Ice Storm
135899 – MSI Radeon HD 7970 |
| 126800 – ASUS GeForce GTX 750 |
| 104568 – GIGABYTE BRIX GTX 760 |
| 73517 – Radeon HD 8670D (AMD A10-6800K) |
5.1.2 – 3DMark Cloud Gate
| 15316 – MSI Radeon HD 7970 |
| 12688 – ASUS GeForce GTX 750 |
| 10778 – GIGABYTE BRIX GTX 760 |
| 6574 – Radeon HD 8670D (AMD A10-6800K) |
5.1.3 – 3DMark Sky Diver
| 19947 – EVGA GeForce GTX 780 |
| 11145 – ASUS GeForce GTX 750 |
| 8928 – GIGABYTE BRIX GTX 760 |
5.1.4 – 3DMark Fire Strike
| 7996 – EVGA GeForce GTX 780 |
| 6032 – EVGA GeForce GTX 680 |
| 3468 – ASUS GeForce GTX 750 |
| 2953 – GIGABYTE BRIX GTX 760 |
| 1173 – Radeon HD 8670D (AMD A10-6800K) |
5.2 – Alien vs Predator
Settings: Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Texture Quality: 2, Shadow Quality: 3, Anisotropic Filtering: 16, SSAO: ON, Vertical Sync: OFF, DX11 Tessellation: ON, DX11 Advanced Shadows: ON, DX11 MSAA Samples: 1.
| 97.8 FPS – MSI Radeon HD 7970 |
| 56.3 FPS – ASUS GeForce GTX 750 |
| 42 FPS – GIGABYTE BRIX GTX 760 |
5.3 – FurMark 1.14
Settings: Preset:1080
| 4083 points (68 FPS) – EVGA GeForce GTX 780 |
| 3361 points (56 FPS) – MSI Radeon HD 7970 |
| 1409 points (23 FPS) – GIGABYTE BRIX GTX 760 |
| 1340 points (22 FPS) – ASUS GeForce GTX 750 |
5.4 – Unigine Valley 1.0
Settings: Extreme HD (1920×1080 fullscreen, 8X MSAA)
| 56.4 FPS, Score: 2358 – EVGA GeForce GTX 780 |
| 19.6 FPS, Score: 822 – ASUS GeForce GTX 750 |
| 19.5 FPS, Score: 816 – GIGABYTE BRIX GTX 760 |
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1344 CUDA cores, 112 TMUs and 24 ROPs it’s desktop 660Ti actually
6GB VRAM is excellent :O 🙂 but Brix GTX 760 is crap for gaming because it’s much slower than GTX 760 reference. :S lool
Do you think running the Brix without it’s case on would help the overheating? (when i say case i mean like leaving off the side panel with the ethernet port/HDMI/USB but keeping the top on)
Nice idea with that Box, but the components aren’t efficient enough for that small box. Its nice to have High-End-Components in such a small case, but if you can’t use it under full utilization, this is senseless.
Zotac do that better with his ZBox EN760. Yes its not as fast as this box (before the Brix-Box throtteling the GPU), but its quiet, it doesn’t overheat and it doesn’t need to throttle the GPU under long time utilization.
Perhaps Gigabyte develop a new Box and solving that problems, than its a real nice small PC