Gaming Performance - DIRT 3, Skyrim & Battlefield 3
It's important for us to perform a number of game benchmarks as well as the synthetic tests because gamers will want to know if there are any significant benefits. So here we have a selection of popular gaming titles, critically acclaimed and action-packed.
Settings DIRT 3 -
1680x1050 4xMSAA – Ultra Quality *Benchmark tool*
Skyrim -
1680x1050 2xAA – Very High Quality *FRAPS – 1st episode*
Battlefield 3 -
1680x1050 2xAA – Ultra Quality *FRAPS – Sepur Fedelis*
The gaming titles selected demand GPU power over CPU power – in each test the difference is rather marginal.
Page 1: Introduction Page 2: Technical Specifications Page 3: Packaging & First Look Page 4: Closer Look Page 5: Closer Look (Continued) Page 6: Test Setup & Overclocking Page 7: ASRock Extreme Tuning Utility Page 8: XFAST 555 Features & Benchmark Page 9: Lucid VIRTU MVP Page 10: Power Consumption Page 11: Encoding Performance - X264 HD Page 12: Processing Features Performance - AIDA64 Page 13: Processing Power Performance - Cinebench Page 14: Bandwidth Performance - SiSoftware SANDRA Page 15: 3D Performance - 3DMARK 11 Page 16: Gaming Performance - DIRT 3, Skyrim & Battlefield 3 Page 17: Conclusion
