Sapphire Pure Platinum A85XT Motherboard 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 overall score gives a good indicator that the system would easily manage the latest Direct X 11 titles without a problem. That said, the A10 5800k scores significantly less than the Core i7 970, dropping the overall score by around 1,400 points. The Sapphire AMD system is slightly faster than our Core i3 2105 system however.

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