XFX HD6870 Black Edition Crossfire 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.

In Crossfire, the HD6870 Black Editions manage to score 8,510 points in this Direct X 11 benchmark, which is around 2,500 more points than the reference clocked GTX580. They actually only score around 400 points less than the much more expensive GTX590.

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