Xidax X-8 Gaming PC Review: Skylake-X And Dual GTX 1080 Ti Cards For The Win
Xidax X-8 Gaming PC: 3DMark, Heaven & Valley
Futuremark’s graphically intense 3DMark Fire Strike is designed specifically for gaming PCs. It has both Normal and Extreme modes: Normal runs at 1920x1080, while Extreme runs at 2560x1440 and is intended for high end gaming PCs.
Xidax's X-8 did not waste any time asserting its graphics dominance over the competition. In 3DMark's Fire Strike Extreme benchmark, the dual GPUs in this setup shoveled pixels around at a frenetic pace. Even three GeForce GTX 980 Ti cards, as found in Maingear's Rush Superstock X99, fall short of the X-8. This is exactly the type of performance we expect to see from a high-dollar system.
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The benchmark uses tessellation, ambient occlusion, volume illumination, and a high quality depth of field filter. We tested the Xidax X-8 on the Extreme preset.
Xidax's X-8 did not waste any time asserting its graphics dominance over the competition. In 3DMark's Fire Strike Extreme benchmark, the dual GPUs in this setup shoveled pixels around at a frenetic pace. Even three GeForce GTX 980 Ti cards, as found in Maingear's Rush Superstock X99, fall short of the X-8. This is exactly the type of performance we expect to see from a high-dollar system.
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Unigine's Heaven 4.0 is a GPU-intensive benchmark that hammers graphics cards to the limits. It features hardware tessellation with DirectX 11 and focuses solely on the GPU with real-time global illumination, screen space ambient occlusion, volumetric clouds, and adjustable settings. Valley offers a similar evaluation, and like Heaven it can be used both as a benchmark and a stress testing tool.
Unigine Heaven 4.0
So far, so good. In Heaven, the X-8 out muscled previous generation systems outfitted with dual graphics cards, and smoked every configuration that wielded a single GPU. Of particular interest is the bump in performance over the Alienware Area-51 with its solo GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, versus two of the same card in the X-8.
The results are a little different in Valley 1.0. Rather than take the pole position, the X-8 slips to second place, averaging around 143 frames per second. We suspect that part of the reason the X-8 didn't finish in front of the Vybe is because this benchmark isn't heavily threaded, and is somewhat CPU limited. As a result, the Vybe's aggressive overclock to 5GHz allowed it to finish ahead of the X-8. Nevertheless, pushing 140 fps is nothing to scoff at.
