3DMark11

3DMark11 (DirectX 11)


 

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark. Designed to measure your PC’s gaming performance, 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to consistently and reliably test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.

  • Graphics Test 1
    • Based on the Deep Sea scene
    • No tessellation
    • Heavy lighting with several shadow casting lights
  • Graphics Test 2
    • Based on the Deep Sea scene
    • Medium tessellation
    • Medium lighting with few shadow casting lights
  • Graphics Test 3
    • Based on the High Temple scene
    • Medium tessellation
    • One shadow casting light
  • Graphics Test 4
    • Based on the High Temple scene
    • Heavy tessellation
    • Many shadow casting lights
  • Physics Test
    • Rigid body physics simulation with a large number of objects
    • This test runs at a fixed resolution regardless of the chosen preset
  • Combined Test
    • Runs rigid body physics simulation on a moderate number of objects
    • Soft body physics using DirectCompute and the Bullet physics library running on the GPU
    • Medium tessellation
    • Medium lighting
 
AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition Review - Taking on the GTX 680 - Graphics Cards 29
 
AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition Review - Taking on the GTX 680 - Graphics Cards 30
 
AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition Review - Taking on the GTX 680 - Graphics Cards 31

 

The GeForce GTX 680 still wins on the 3DMark11 front, for what that is worth. The new GHz Edition of the Radeon HD 7970 sees a 10-11% boost in the graphics score with the higher clocks.

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