System Builder Marathon, Q1 2013: $1,600 Alternative PC

Results: Non-Gaming Applications

The Tom’s Hardware team normally groups application benchmarks by type, but only OpenCL-enhanced Photoshop stood out as a test that might potentially benefit from the $1,600 PC’s second graphics card. We opened up a GPU monitoring program and watched the needle jump between zero and 14% utilization throughout this test.

In my search for noticeable changes in performance, I grouped the non-impacted benchmarks together. If you’d like to see exactly how close these results are, simply click on a photo to expand it.

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