Alienware Aurora R12 vs Dell XPS 8960 Tower for Gaming

FPS Winner

Alienware Aurora R12 Gaming Desktop PC

2nd Variation

Core i7-11700F GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Dell XPS 8960 Tower Desktop PC

40th Variation

Core i7-14700K GeForce RTX 3050

The Alienware Aurora R12 is a clear winner – it's a faster gaming PC Build than the Dell XPS 8960 Tower and it's also a much better value for money, as it's $989.01 cheaper!

Advantages of the Alienware Aurora R12 Gaming Desktop PC

A faster PC Build for gaming
Up to 40% cheaper – $1499.99 vs $2489.00
A much better value for money for gaming

Advantages of the Dell XPS 8960 Tower Desktop PC

The Alienware Aurora R12 Gaming Desktop PC is better in every way

Alienware Aurora R12 Gaming Desktop PC vs Dell XPS 8960 Tower Desktop PC for Gaming

The PC's performance in selected game and settings

Alienware Aurora R12 Gaming Desktop PC

2nd Variation

Average FPS

100%

Min 1% FPS

100%

Price, $

$1499.99

100%

Value, $/FPS

$15.62/FPS

100%

Alienware Aurora R12 Gaming Desktop - Intel Core i7 11700F, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB SDD + 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6, Windows 11 Home - Dark Side of The Moon

Buy on Amazon

$1,499.99

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Dell XPS 8960 Tower Desktop PC

40th Variation

Average FPS

82%

Min 1% FPS

78%

Price, $

$2489

60%

Value, $/FPS

$31.5/FPS

50%

Dell XPS 8960 Tower Desktop Computer - 14th Gen Intel Core i7-14700K 20-Core up to 5.60 GHz CPU, 64GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB NVMe SSD + 1TB HDD, GeForce RTX 3050 8GB GDDR6, Killer Wi-Fi 6E, Windows 11 Home

Buy on Amazon

$2,489.00

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My Games

The FPS you'll get in saved games

Alienware Aurora R12 Gaming Desktop PC

2nd Variation

Dell XPS 8960 Tower Desktop PC

40th Variation

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GPU Comparison

Compared by selected game FPS and theoretical performance

Full GPU Comparison

Alienware Aurora R12 Gaming Desktop PC

2nd Variation

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

8 GB GDDR6 | 256-bit

Pixel Fillrate

133.2 GPixel/s

100%

Texture Fillrate

253.1 GTexel/s

100%

FP32

16.2 TFLOPS

100%

Dell XPS 8960 Tower Desktop PC

40th Variation

GeForce RTX 3050

8 GB GDDR6 | 128-bit

Pixel Fillrate

56.86 GPixel/s

43%

Texture Fillrate

142.2 GTexel/s

56%

FP32

9.098 TFLOPS

56%

CPU Comparison

Compared by selected game FPS and Geekbench 6 benchmark scores

Full CPU Comparison

Alienware Aurora R12 Gaming Desktop PC

2nd Variation

Core i7-11700F

2.5 GHz | 8-core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core

2135

73%

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

8705

46%

Dell XPS 8960 Tower Desktop PC

40th Variation

Core i7-14700K

3.4 GHz | 20-core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core

2938

100%

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

19014

100%

Specifications

Comparison of all specifications

Alienware Aurora R12 Gaming Desktop PC	Specifications Comparison of all specifications	Dell XPS 8960 Tower Desktop PC
General
Unknown	Release Date	Unknown
Core i7-11700F	CPU	Core i7-14700K
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti	GPU	GeForce RTX 3050
16 GB	RAM	64 GB
-	SSD	2 TB
1 TB	HDD	1 TB

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System-Shared

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