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MSI R6870 HAWK (Twin Frozr III Thermal Design) 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.

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

The overclocked R6870 manages to almost equal the HD5870 from the last generation, falling short by around 100 points. The HD6950 leads the way by a considerable margin with this Direct X 11 based benchmark suite.

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