Question about Fire Strike "Combined Score"

I just upgraded from a reference RX 580 to an MSI “Air Boost” Vega 56. The gains in the graphics score were phenomenal, up nearly 50%. The overall score went up 27%, but the “Combined Score” only went up 6%. That really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. What is the Combined Score representative of, and why is there such a small difference after an otherwise significant upgrade?

It says what it does before the test
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Considering you only changed your GPU, your result doesnt seem unreasonable and may be revealing a bottleneck somewhere else in the system

3dmark also discloses this in the technical guide directly below this screencap

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In the nicest way it can be said, read the manual.

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