Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 (AMD 990FX) Review

3DMark 11 is designed for testing DirectX 11 hardware running on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The benchmark includes six all new benchmark tests that make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

After running the tests 3DMark gives your system a score with larger numbers indicating better performance. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.  We used performance settings for this benchmark.

If you want to learn more about this benchmark, or to buy it yourself, head over to this page.

Final scores of 5,876 points and 5,202 points for the GTX580 and HD6970 respectively indicate that the board is delivering very strong levels of performance. We don't rely solely on synthetic benchmarks, but they are useful to include before the real world testing.

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