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Benchmark Results: Productivity

Gigabyte ties Asus in Photoshop, in spite of its slightly slower base clock.

Our 3ds Max benchmark doesn’t run long enough to allow tiny performance differences to emerge, resulting in a five-way tie.

ECS wins WinRAR but loses in WinZip, with single threading in WinZip being its most likely hurdle.

Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.