Core i7 3960X with 4-Way CrossFireX HD 6970 Performance Analysis

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By: Shawn Baker (more) | CPU, APU & Chipsets Content | Posted: Nov 24, 2011 5:43 pm

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3DMark 11

Version and / or Patch Used: 1.1

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.

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Looking at 3DMark 11 we can see there's a nice little performance boost, but nothing too major coming out of the 4-Way setup. Hopefully we get a better performance boost when we get into some of the other applications.