We would like to thank the following companies for supplying and supporting us with our test system hardware and equipment: Intel, ASRock, Kingston, Mittoni, Noctua and Corsair.

We've got a whole mess of cards here we'll be comparing the HD 6990 CFX setup against including the HD 6990 by itself along with the HD 6870, HD 6950 and HD 6970 all in CrossFire.

For NVIDIA we've got the GTX 580, GTX 560 Ti in SLI and the GTX 580 in SLI.

Let's get started!

3DMark 11

Version and / or Patch Used: 1.0
Developer Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com
Product Homepage: http://www.3dmark.com/3dmark11/
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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.

Straight away we just see some massive performance out of the gate that puts the HD 6990 CFX setup way ahead of everything else here.