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.
3DMark11 has always preferred more cores as it allows it to process the CPU parts faster. It is apparent that the Bulldozer CPU wins in this race but the differences are not as great as you may have expected.
