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Key Differences

In short, we have a clear winner — Alienware Aurora R14 Liquid Cooled outperforms the cheaper Dell XPS 8960 on the selected game parameters, and is also a better bang for your buck!

Advantages of Dell XPS 8960 Gaming Desktop PC

  • Up to 29% cheaper than Alienware Aurora R14 Liquid Cooled - $1701.99 vs $2399.95

Advantages of Alienware Aurora R14 Liquid Cooled Gaming Desktop PC

  • Performs up to 51% better in Battlefield 2042 than Dell XPS 8960 - 122 vs 81 FPS
  • Up to 6% better value when playing Battlefield 2042 than Dell XPS 8960 - $19.67 vs $21.01 per FPS
This is a free version of Battlefield 2042.
Battlefield 2042

Battlefield 2042

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Ultra


FPS

81

66%

Value, $/FPS

$21.01/FPS

94%

Price, $

$1701.99

100%

Dell XPS 8960 Gaming Desktop Computer Tower 2023 | 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700 16-Core CPU, 64GB DDR5 RAM, 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD, GeForce RTX 3060 8GB GDDR6, Windows 11 Home

Buy for $1,701.99 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 258 minutes ago


FPS

122

100%

Value, $/FPS

$19.67/FPS

100%

Price, $

$2399.95

70%

FPS and Value Winner

Alienware Aurora R14 Liquid Cooled Gaming Desktop - AMD Ryzen 9 5900, 32GB 3466MHz RAM, 1TB SDD + 2TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB GDDR6X Graphics, VR Ready, USB-C, Windows 11 Home – Black

Buy for $2,399.95 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 266 minutes ago

TOP 5 Games

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Ultra

GPU Comparison

Compared by selected game FPS and theoretical performance

Full GPU Comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB Logo
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

8 GB | System-Shared

Pixel Fillrate

85.3 GPixel/s

52%

Texel Fillrate

199 GTexel/s

43%


NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Logo
GeForce RTX 3080

10 GB | System-Shared

Pixel Fillrate

164.2 GPixel/s

100%

Texel Fillrate

465.1 GTexel/s

100%

GPU Winner

CPU Comparison

Compared by selected game FPS and Geekbench 5 benchmark scores

Full CPU Comparison

Intel Core i7-13700 Logo
Core i7-13700

null-core

Single-Core

2632

100%

Multi-Core

14759

100%

CPU Winner

Dell XPS 8960 Gaming Desktop PC Image

Dell XPS 8960 Gaming Desktop PC

Alienware Aurora R14 Liquid Cooled Gaming Desktop PC Image

Alienware Aurora R14 Liquid Cooled Gaming Desktop PC

UnknownRelease DateDec 20th, 2021
Core i7-13700CPURyzen 9 5900
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GBGPUGeForce RTX 3080
64 GB
RAM16 GB
N/A StorageStorage2 TB HDD

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