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.
The first proper benchmark of our graphical testing, the RX 480 storms to the top of the chart – even beating out the GTX 980 of the ASUS ROG GX700. It will be interesting to see if the RX 480 can keep this sort of performance up.